rom : ee a BAN Americar ns. Eye Hi nala ee rer ee he ' ht en on Everest, the hope is to place “more than two men’’ finally at the top. The expedition leader said that if things go well, as many (more as possible would try for the grand prize. | The U.S. party—which Dylan: furth smilingly said could be con- See Only Five Per Cent Beauty - WASHINGTON (AP)—The lead. ) It will be, tiey said, the first{i ler of 19 Americans preparing for time a single expedition has atthe first U.S. assault on the “roof | tempted to scale the three peaks of the world’’—towering Mt. Ever- in a single season, although each est and two sister peaks—figures has been. conquered before b the climb, will be “95 per cent climbers. Dyhrenfurth, of Santa Monic : sheer hell, 5 per cent beauty.” — Canyon, Calif., noted that if th = | “But in such things, we reAmericans reach the top-of Ey = {member only the 5 per cent of = | peauty when it’s over,’’ remarked| erest, they will be only the thir Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, the eX- expedition to pull off the trick The British, who were first, an pedition’s 44-year-old chief. the Swiss have done it. The Re He and some of his companChinese claim they. climbed Ey ions outlined their plans at a news| _ | conference staged by the National erest in 1960 and left as proof = |Geographic Society, a sponsor of bust of Mao Tse-tung. But their claim has been cha the $326,000 venture. The attempt. lenged. is scheduled for this spring. “Tf the bust of Mao Tse-tung j Six of the Americans will climb there, we’ll send them a congrat Mt. Everest, at 29,028 feet the world’s highest mountain. Two latory telegram, ne said Dyhre | i | other teams of two men each will furth. One thing the expedition won ‘ |have a go at Everest’s sister look for, he said, is the elusiy _ |peaks in the Himalayas—Lhotse “abominable snowman” whic : | (27,923 feet) and Mt. Nee (25,- | | iin’ oi te lives amid the sno (726 feet). Pi ge te ‘2 ae Sea ay 6 ae Cane oa ice of Everest’s slopes. sidered “‘eggheads” since all are - Dyhrenfurth said he believes the college graduates and five are reature is more fact than legend, Ph.D.’s and three . M:D.’s—will. probably. a manh-like ape “very reach peaks through the Nepal high on the evolutionary scale.” _ But the expedition aims at more ractical results. The Army, Navy and Air Force also ntuure among which sponsors of the expects to unearth lew information about man’s abil. to perform under stress. men assigned to make the | al stages of all three climbs be purposely pushed temrarily beyond the ‘‘deteriorayn”? ‘point of physiological and Pehologicel endurance. Among other things, they'll be nied any auxiliary oxygen un| they reach 25,000 feet — and ul ring the final 4,000 feet, even sh getting extra oxygen, their 0 dies will feel short of it. \ Pe | only three teams of two en each will make the assault side. A-more direct route lies in Red China but the group didn’t bother to ask permission to use it. The Americans, all experienced mountain climbers, will have to reach the mountains and finish the climb during May, before the monsoon season sweeps in. Besides the scientific aspects of the quest, why are they willing to go through ‘95 per cent sheer hell’? for 5 ‘per cent beauty? Dyhrenfurth had an answer: “You do it because it is satisfying to the inner man... it is soul-satisfying. “And it’s not just the physical aspects of mountain climbing that are satisfying. It’s so because of what you find out about yourself and about others who make the climb a oe aS wy, ite Try oe 2 te 19 ba 5 ei @ n a avd he TH Vd tn ot ge elt ie