15 AUGUST 1931, Page 3

High and Low From Mr. F. S. Smythe and his

companions, encamped before Kamet among the Himalayan snows, 20,000 feet above sea-level, to the divers of the Artiglio, many fathoms below it and at last in sight of the Egypt's bullion-room, man is seeking compensation for the fact that he can only live on one planet at a time. Sir Hubert Wilkins has left his last Norwegian port of call, and the submarine ' Nautilus ' is headed for the North Pole. A German expedition is engaged on a further assault on Kanchenjunga. Mr. J. A. Mollison, testing human endurance to the uttermost, has flown from Australia to England in less than nine days, and thus lowered the record by about fifty hours. It seems hardly surprising that no one has bothered to swim the Channel this summer.