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THIS work of Mr. Freshfield's on a tour round Kanchenjunga comes as a very welcome addition to the literature that deals with the great mountain peaks of the world. Kanchenjunga (28,150 feet) is the third highest measured peak on the earth's surface, Mount Everest being 29,002 feet, and K2, in the Karakoram range north of Kashmir, 28,278 feet high. At present Mount Everest is hopelessly impossible of access, being in figures of ethnological groups. The one is to make Nepal, a country entirely closed to Europeans; K2 also lies so far removed from civilisation that it takes weeks of travelling, many days of it over glaciers, to arrive even at its base.
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Round Kanchenjunga 1 . Nature 70, 8–10 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070008a0
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