Rongbuk camp was reached on April 29. From here other camps were established at different elevations, No. 6 at 26,700 feet being at the highest point.

MOUNT EVEREST UNCONQUERED. Three determined efforts to reach the summit of Mount Everest, highest mountain in the world, have been made, but all have failed. They were all made by British expeditions arranged and financed by the Royal Geographical society and the Alpine club of London. England. In 1921 G. H. Bullock and G. L. Mallory reached a point 6.000 feet below the summit, or about 23.000 feet up. In 1922 Capt. George Finch and Capt. Geoffrey Bruce reached an altitude of 27,300 feet by using an oxygen apparatus, while three other members of the party. T. H. Somervell, George L. Mallory and E. F. Norton, reached an elevation of 26.000 feet without the use of gas. The attempt to reach the summit ended that year when seven porters were swept into a crevasse by an avalanche and six of them were killed.

No expedition was sent out in 1923, but in 1924 a strong party led by Brig.-Gen. Charles V. Bruce was sent to the Himalayas to make another attack on the peak. The principal members were, besides the leader. Lieut.-Col. E. F. Norton, second in command: George Leigh Mallory, T. Howard Somervell, Geoffrey Bruce. Bentley Beetham, A. C. Irvine, J. de V. Hazard. N. E. Odell, Maj. R. W. Hingston. E. C. Shebbeare and Capt. C. J. Morris. These and others gathered at Darjeeling in March and by April 6 were at Phari Jong. Tibet. From this point Gen. Charles V. Bruce was compelled by severe illness to return to Darjeeling. The command then devolved upon Lieut.-Col. Norton. The base camp on the PRISONERS IN THE July 1.

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On June 4 Norton and Somervell reached an elevation of 28.000 feet without the use of oxygen. On June 7 Mallory and Irvine reached camp No. 6 and on the next day started with oxygen apparatus toward the summit. Odell saw them from the camp they had left and so far as he could judge they had attained a height of 28.000 feet and were still bound upward. That was the last seen of them. What happened to them or how near they had come to the summit before disaster overtook them could not be learned by the other members of the party, mos of whom were suffering from snow blindness and excessive fatigue. That Mallory and Irvine did not return to any of the camps was made certain and the conclusion was reached by Col. Norton that the men must have lost their lives by some mountaineering accident on June 8.

Mr. Mallory had taken part in the two previous assaults on Mount Everest and was an experienced mountain climber. Mr. Irvine was an athlete from Oxford and a member of the Merton College Spitzbergen exploration party.

The disaster as well as the end of the good weather and the exhausted condition of the remaining members of the party ended the campaign for the year with Mount Everest still unconquered.

UNITED STATES. 1922.

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