Mount Everest Lures Explorers Once More
London—(U.P.) The latest bids to master Mount Everest may develop into a tense international struggle, comparable to the epic Scott-Amundsen race to the South Pole in 1911 and the Edward Whymper-Jean Antonie Carrel assault on the Matterhorn in 1865.
A Swiss expedition has gone to Nepal, north of India, to test a new west route to the 29,002-foot high summit. It is reported that a 150-strong Russian expedition has set out along the more familiar northest route, via Tibet and the Rongkbu Glacier.
Will either of these parties be successful in reaching the "roof of the world?" Numerous expeditions have tried in the past and failed. Courageous men have perished and each time it has been the last 1,000 feet that has proved the insurmountable hazard.
Great extremes in temperatures— 180 degrees below freezing point at night — and treacherous 100-mile per hour winds driving loose snow over slippery-smooth rocks are other hazards.
Previous climbers testified to the great dangers faced in that last 1,000 feet. The chief enemy is thin flesh which has an effect on man I am to drunkenness in an advanced stage.
There are the unpredictable monsoons which can turn a comparatively safe climb into a nightmare of landslides of loose snow and tumbling rocks and dirt.
Earlier expeditions rarely returned without a story of disaster.
The nine-man expedition of 1921 lost a scientist, Dr. A. M. Kellas The following year 13 men reached 26,985 feet without oxygen on the first of their three attempts.
The second attempt by that party reached 27,353 feet but the third try ended in disaster, when seven portals died in an avalanche.
In 1924, Leigh-Mallory and A. C. two Britishers who had part in the 1922 attempts, died. They may have reached the summit but only Everest can say for sure.
Two Americans, Richard Halliburton and Moye Stephens, tried to fly over the summit in 1531, but had to give up at 16,000 feet.
The following year it was flown over twice by a British peer, Lord Clydesdale, and although he took pictures, Everest's "plume" of driving, swirling snow ruined visibility.
The first time 28.000 feet was exceeded was in 1933 when four British climbers, led by Eric Shipton and using radio, almost got there without oxygen before having to give up.
A member of that expedition, F. S. Smythe, who died in 1949, wrote afterwards: "The last 1,000 feet of Everest are not for mere flesh and blood."
The lone attempt made by a 35-year-old Englishman, Maurice Wilson, in 1934 was without equal for sheer reckless courage. He reached 21,000 feet but died in the attempt. His body was found the following
by Shipton. His diary reads "I saw snow and ice."
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eating snow and ice." Shinton made several further bids.
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Representatives of the Department of Defense will visit the University between May 23 and June 7 to give KU a superior award for having donated 1,000 or more pints of blood in Red Cross Bloodmobile visits.
The University was told of this award at a dinner held last night at the Defense Blood Center, Kansas City, Mo. At that time a certificate of appreciation was given to University and Douglas County Red Cross officials "In appreciation of outstanding service in the blood program."
The award will be a 36 by 48 inch flag featuring the insignia of the Red Cross Flood drive, the giant red drop of blood.
Attending from the University were Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of Student Health services and chairman of the Community Blood program; Lt. Col. Bayard Atwood, assistant professor of air science; Mrs. Marjorie Hipp, secretary of the Douglas County Red Cross, and Loy Kirkpatrick, college junior.
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The dinner was in celebration of the first anniversary of the Defense Blood center. In all, 40 awards were given to schools, industries, and businesses.
William B. Dickinson, college junior, and Dan Gallin, college senior, received duplicate prizes of $50 each Friday in the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Memorial Essay contest.
2 Men Awarded Essay Prizes
Three prizes were offered for the best essays written by students on the "Application of the Teaching of Jesus to Some Problem of the Present Day." This year the committee decided not to award a first and second prize but to give two third prizes.
The committee of judges included Miss Mattie E. Crummite, assistant professor of Romance languages, chairman; Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, and James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history.
This memorial contest was established here in 1911 and awards have been given every year since them. If an essay receives first prize, it will be published by the committee.
The essays which won third place this year are "How the College Students Looks at Christianity" by Dickinson and "Christianity—Ideology or Utopia?" by Gallin.
Last year's winning essay, by Albert Roland, "51, entitled 'Christian Values in Recent Fiction,' is now being printed.
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Five to Give Honor Recital
Five University music students have been nominated for an Honor recital next fall, Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts announced today.
The music faculty of the School chose them for outstanding performances in a series of informal
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Those honored are James York, sophomore majoring in piano; Dale Moore, junior majoring in voice; Richard Wright, junior majoring in voice; Martha Heck, junior majoring in piano; and Donald Stewart, senior violin.
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