The operations of the Mount Everest expedition have ended for
this year with the discovery of a possible way up. After every approach to the mountain except one had been exhaustively examined and found impassable, the expedition moved on to the remote eastern face of the mountain. Here, too, every way at first seemed to be blocked by the blank walls of gigantic precipices. Almost as a last chance the climbers began to investigate the Kharta Tsangpo Valley. From it they succeeded in climbing the great pass which connects Everest with the northern peak, and found that the ground to the north-eastern ridge summit (the highest point) was " quite possible." Nothing more, however, could be done then as, presumably in part owing to the lateness of the season, the cold and the force of the wind were so intense as to render further progress impossible. But the way has been found, and next year the expedition will begin work again.
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