Posted by Robert Dilley on September 27, 2002 at 03:46:52 from 206.186.168.109 user rdilley.
In Reply to: Re: Kanchenjunga (was: Mastodons) posted by Jon on September 26, 2002 at 17:00:27:
For Kanchenjunga see the FAQ page.
The mountain rumoured to be higher than Everest was Amni Machen (or Amne-ma-chen) in the interior of China. According to JR Ullman in The Age of Mountaineering there had been vague stories of a super-high mountain far to the north of the Himalaya since about 1900. These were bolstered by airmen flying between India and China in WWII and reporting looking up at a peak when at 30,000 ft themselves. However, late in 1948 a Chinese party flew into the area and announced that there was nothing of that height there, and the story effectively died.
Mars has a much higher mountain than Everest (Olympus Mons) -- but AR never set any of his stories there. Wouldn't Dick have enjoyed going there!
Valauble as the FAQ page is, couldn't it be made more prominent and accessible, to increase the chances of newcomers checking it? (And I cannot resist bringing up an old complaint: the FAQ pages refer tautologously to Lake Windermere. Repeat after me: "Mere means Lake"....)