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DR. FILIPPO DI FILIPPI'S paper to the Royal Geographical Society on June 14 is the record of an expedition more thoroughly equipped, from a purely scientific point of view, than any that has yet attacked the many problems still awaiting solution in the dreary solitudes that lie beyond the valley of the upper Indus. To one who knows by experience the labour involved in transferring himself for a few months only, with no more elaborate outfit than a single tent, a geological hammer, and a camera, to the higher regions of the Himalaya, it seems almost incredible that such items should be included in the impedimenta as a complete wireless installation; pilot balloons, with the hydrogen for their inflation carried in sixteen steel cylinders; and other scientific gear; to say nothing of tents for a party numbering one hundred and fifty persons, and the provisions, amounting to some forty-six tons, requisite for a sojourn of many months in that most inhospitable country. Yet the task was brought to a successful conclusion, in the face of every obstacle that Nature in her most inclement mood could oppose to it. We are left to imagine with how great an expenditure of patience and energy, for the modest narrative of the leader of the expedition, Signor Filippo di Filippi, makes light of this aspect of the achievement.
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L., T. Exploration in the Karakorum . Nature 95, 622 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095622a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095622a0