Two years later the Britons returned to the attack. Dr. T. H. Somervell and Lieut.-Colonel E. F. Norton reached 28.200 ft. Somervell stopped, gasping horribly. Norton struggled on a few yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there." (This report appeared in the TIME magazine in the 1930s).Few more things about Dr. T. H. Somervell,...
A great swift Surgeon having stupendous stamina.....Did hemimandiblectomy and gastrectomy in 40 mts....Professor of Surgery,CMC Vellore.....Perhaps a Greater Missinary Doctor than Dr.Albert Schweitzer....Mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest twice.AUTHOR: Knife and Life in India , After Everest & Text Book of SurgeryExpert Painter,excellent musician.....
But above all a practical believer who took life as God gave it to him and found it not too precious to lose.... (though I personally donot believe in his many other ideas fully )
He worked in CSI Mission Hospital Neyoor for more than 20 years...
The point here I want to emphasize is his commitment and obedience rather his gifts and I hope Iam making myself clear...
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
ReplyDeleteFor this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, 11and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
fellow follwer in christ, let us no more let any relationship or thought or habit or any other evil in our lives... Let nothing rob us of the calling we have in christ n let us be glad to give up, let go anythin to bring His Kingdom into our hearts for He is worthy.. May we strive to help the fellow follwer in christ for we are doing no Strollin in the park but trekkin a Step mountain of Holiness,trekkin the path which our saviour Jesus himself took and bids us to take every step looking unto Him and liftfing up the fellow follwer growin in Love,growin in christ..Let us be Sure in our hearts that at the end of the Trek is our Father, waiting for us..So let us fasten our ropes, strengthen our heels... Good Lord, faithful u r,,To thee we come..