Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — Tall Mountain Climbing. [ARTICLE]

Tall Mountain Climbing.

A dispatch to the London Times from Calcutta says: "Conway’s mountaineering party, now in Hindoo Kooah, have climed a peak 23,000 feet high. This is 1,000 feet higher than any record climbing. At which the New York Sun explains: □ls the figures of the height of the the mountain given above are correct the statement that ik is the highest recorded climb is lb inaccurate. In 1888 Mr. W. W. Graham and Mr. Emil Boss reached the highest point above the sea that has been recorded by the mountain climbers up to this time. It took them three days to reach the top of Mount Kabru, in the Himalayas, 23,700 feet above the sea, and 2,500 feet above the summit of the Chimborazo, where Mr. Wbymper, four years earlier, won the highest honors attained up to that time in mountaineering. The lait 1,500 feet of Kabrtr were nothing but loe, covered several inches dsen with frozen snow, up whioh the climbers made their way by cutting steps.