. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 15. MARCH 1921. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 5'ja Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 125. 6d. post free; single numbers, IS. net, postage zd. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2S. 6d. net each ; postage â
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 15. MARCH 1921. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 5'ja Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 125. 6d. post free; single numbers, IS. net, postage zd. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2S. 6d. net each ; postage â j\d. Editorial Notes There is promise of a great adventure year. A joint committee of the Alpine Club and of the Royal Geographical Society has been formed to organise an to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. It is proposed ^ to send out a reconnaissance party to Tibet this year to make a real, thorough survey of the whole situation, to find out as much as possible about the country around Everest, about the mountain itself, and about the climatic conditions that prevail in those promiscuous parts, and next year if all goes well to send out a climbing party. It is a big undertaking, but so little is really known of the geography of that part of the world that a thorough reconnaissance is an abso- lutely essential preliminary to the full assault of the mountain. * * * â ⦠* If all goes well this year, then, we may reasonably hope that Everest may be climbed next year. Diffi- culties in the past have been of two kinds, political and natural. The former have at last been overcome, and the latter may now be closely and scientifically studied. High risks will have to be run and uncommonly severe hardships enduredârisks from icy slopes, from rocky ' See The Geographical Journal, February, 1921, pp. 73, 121. precipices, and avalanches ; hardships from intense cold, from terrific winds, and from blinding snowstorms. Even were all these diffi
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