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04. July 1946; Chengchow Airport

17. July 1946; Autonomous Province Tibet

22. July 1946; Kiangnan Dock & Engineering Works at Shanghai

28. July 1946; Tjianjin Navy Base

07. August 1946; CAICO Test Site ; near Loiwing

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The object of the expedition is the exact geological surveying, mapping of the area and a first exploration of possible ascent routes.

Now I have been thinking about this...

the British had various expeditions into Tibet in order to climbs Everest so I would assume that they already would have looked at various possible ascent routes on the Chinese side of Everest and, if Mallory and Irvine actually reached the top of Everest during 1924 expedition (and while no definitive proof exists, there is a reasonable chance that they reached the top), the British would have found one as well (though not aware of it since Mallory and Irvine never made it back).

Would it not be better to work with the British data and narrow it down to a few of the most promising routes to get to the top instead of wasting lots of time and come up with the same results as the British did over 20 years ago?

Quoted from "parador"

07. August 1946; CAICO Test Site ; near Loiwing

The Defence Ministry has released details of the design of the new CAICO Long-range interceptor aircraft that has been under development for the Chinese Air Force over the course of the past several years. A spokesman for the Ministry indicated that a prototype of the aircraft is expected to fly sometime end of the year, though no date for such was given at this time.

While one prototype will be fitted with conventional radial engines, it is planned to equip another prototype with african turbojet engines. Thus, the jet age will be launched in China.

I look forward to seeing the details of the aircraft in question.

14. August 1946; Shanghai Telegraph

14.August 1946; 13 dgs 54 min North - 144 dgs 58 min East, aboard the Eurasia Aviation Ship MS Dongkeng

Speaking OOC, what is the route taken by Eurasia Airlines across the Pacific? Inquiring minds are curious.
:D

Quoted from "parador"

The mentioned herein connection is the Trans Asia Airways - Route from Kaohsiung to Guam (Pacifica) and continuing to Tarawa (Pacifica). The route is served by flying boats of Transasia or Eurasia. Therefore the catapult ships of the Eurasia Corporation are at anchor at Guam and Tarawa.

I see; thank you for the clarification. I honestly cannot see the economic viability of such a service, but it is perhaps of benefit to the Government of Pacifica.

The Rice and Coconut line. Some fish might be flying around as well.

17. August 1946; Harbin Newspaper

23. August 1946; Autonomous Province Tibet

While working on some of my own news, I was thinking about Everest some more. Rocky never indicated which side the joint Bharati-British team scaled, but considering that for a long time "Nepal was a 'forbidden country' for westerners" (from wiki) and OTL only opened up in the late 1940s, it seems to me that, with the inclusion of the British in the team, it would mean that they must have scaled the Northside in the 1946 expedition... I do not see why Wesworld Nepal 'forbidden' status would or should be different from OTL...

Also with the "Nepal was a 'forbidden country' for westerners", it would mean that the "we crossed paths in Nepal with our British counterparts" event mentioned in India's 9 September 1945 news (and which seems to have happened prior to 1944) could never have taken place in Nepal as the British would not have been allowed in Nepal at the time of the meeting.

Quoted from "Rooijen10"

While working on some of my own news, I was thinking about Everest some more. Rocky never indicated which side the joint Bharati-British team scaled, but considering that for a long time "Nepal was a 'forbidden country' for westerners" (from wiki) and OTL only opened up in the late 1940s, it seems to me that, with the inclusion of the British in the team, it would mean that they must have scaled the Northside in the 1946 expedition... I do not see why Wesworld Nepal 'forbidden' status would or should be different from OTL...

Also with the "Nepal was a 'forbidden country' for westerners", it would mean that the "we crossed paths in Nepal with our British counterparts" event mentioned in India's 9 September 1945 news (and which seems to have happened prior to 1944) could never have taken place in Nepal as the British would not have been allowed in Nepal at the time of the meeting.

I have to agree. Why should the status of Nepal differ from the OTL status ?? There is no reason, so also in my eyes Nepal is a "forbidden country for westerners". Additionally there is the question how do they come to the Northside ???? There was no inquiry that a joint Bharat/British team can climb up from the chinese side. Whether this permission had been given, is another question. So in my eyes it is all propaganda.

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Additionally there is the question how do they come to the Northside ???? There was no inquiry that a joint Bharat/British team can climb up from the chinese side. Whether this permission had been given, is another question.

Well, they get to it after receiving permission from the Dalai Lama I guess.

From the 1924 expedition article on wiki:

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Going to the north side was politically complex: it required the persistent intervention of the British-Indian government with the Dalai Lama regime in Tibet to allow British expedition activities.

Guess it is time for China to deal with the troublesome Dalai Lama who lets in all those foreigners.


The thing is that to me looking at the evidence, it should be no problem at all for the Bharati to get into Nepal and climb Everest or for the Japanese team to get into nepal. Even the Chinese could do that since they are not westerners (and if planned correctly they could be the first to climb Everest from both sides). But the British? No. The French? No. The Germans? No. The United Staters? No. The Italians? No. The Iberians? No.

I used the search with "Nepal" and could not find any change to the "'forbidden country' for westerners" status of Nepal anywhere in the news. Considering that it would be something quite significant, affecting the numerous western nations, it really must be something that is mentioned in the news for it to be true. Same as Antarctica which has zones that are claimed by numerous nations, but not necessarily accepted by other nations. Numerous based popped out of nowhere without ever having been mentioned in the news as being built or having been built or even being taken into operation therefore I do not accept the existence of those bases just because someone suddenly says it's there (and I am looking at those Atlantean bases when I type this as well as Brock, who suddenly mentioned the existence of a base near the South Pole that was never mentioned before in the news and thus ruined my news ideas).

Just to clarify the situation and make things absolutely clear...

Germany has no ambitions to send a expedition to scale Mount Everest, or any other peak in the Himalayas.

Germany has not established any bases or scientific stations in the Antarctic - to date. Should we do so at any time in the future it will be thoroughly documented in the German News (to the delight of all concerned.) Discount all those tabloid stories of Neuschwabenland and flying saucers. 8)

Rocky was the author of the Bharat-UK expeditions and he looked into the background research, so maybe he has the answers to the Nepal issue.
Really I'm not going to loose any sleep over it, all kinds of odd stuff has happened in WW and who knows what must have happened and what might have happened given the differences in our timeline to OTL.