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dated November 26, 1953: Plan to study giant glacier

Scientists accompanying an Austro-German climbing expedition to the Himalayas in March 1954 were planning to explore one of the world's largest and most magnificent glacier networks in the Karakoram range. The range included the Baltoro glacier; it was a magnificent natural feature more than 35 miles long and covering an area of 290 square miles. The team hoped to obtain some understanding about this glacier system, and others still under development. The main aim of the expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch, well-known Austrian mountaineer, was to climb the 26,231-foot Gasherbrum II peak of the Karakorams. But, if that was not found feasible, they wished to attempt climbing some other peak north of Gilgit in Kashmir. The scientists accompanying the expedition included geographer Dr. Wolfgang Pillewitzer, astronomer Herr Kjal Heckler, cartographer, Herr Erwin Schneider, botanist Dr. Karl Heinx Plaffen, and Dr. Karl Wienert who was a geo-physicist and meteorologist.

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