Sport: Everest Is There
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The actual Swiss assault on Everest is expected to come in May. Avalanche Expert Roch, echoing the aspirations of mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed."
* Named for Sir George Everest (1790-1866), surveyor general of India. Original trigonometric surveys (1852) placed the height at 29,002 ft., a figure still widely accepted. Later computations (1905), still not accurate because of atmospheric refraction complications, place the height at 29,141 ft.
¥ Pronounced koom, meaning a circular bowl carved by glacial erosion; a Welsh word for valley.
* Pronounced call, a mountain pass between peaks; from the Latin collum, neck.
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