Among the great fishermen and adventurers in the twenties of the twentieth century, was the largest builder of Roosevelt, the twenty -sixth of America, the former New York governor and one of the most euphoria in the country. The Roosevelt family funded museums to fill its halls with exhibitions for every large animal known to humans, but for one – the creature far -fetch and legendary, black panda and giant white.
By reducing their legendary lineage, Ted Junior and Keremit Roosevelt decided to follow their father's footsteps in the big games that re-killed lions, tigers, elephants and bears-which are often shown at the New York City Museum of Natural History, which was the grandfather of the boys in 1869.
Follow -up to fame and glory – as well as in the hope of escaping from the shadow of their father – the brothers set out to the distant hemalayas, and the Himalayas in Asia, which have not yet been explored by Westerners. Their goal was to find the panda believed to be a kind of polar bear – but the monster that many believe was not present. The brothers faced a punishable path of 16,000 feet with winter storms.
Natalia Hoult also wrote in her non -imaginary account that was deeply searched, “The monster in the clouds: Roosevelt Bracez's deadly pursuit to find the legendary giant panda”) one of the publishers of the sign): “The animal that was not the superior brothers like any other kind in the world.
“Even natural scientists who have worked in China all their lives will say exactly where the creature lives, or what he ate, or how he behaves.
Few people in the Republic of China saw the panda, but there was a possible signal to it in Chinese literature in the early third century, according to the author. Evidence of his existence donated when Joseph Milner, a missionary, donated the leather he bought from the giant panda of the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1919.
A French missionary, Armand David, appointed the fishermen in the Chinese province of Sichuan in 1869 to collect interesting samples. They returned with a dead body of anonymous animal, and perhaps panda. David skin and sharpened Pelt to Paris to be recognized by experts. But scientists will not confirm that it was authentic.
In 1929, Roosevelt's siblings began on an exploratory journey to find this long -standing bear, more than reality, in the non -hospitable bamboo forests in the Tibet Plateau in the high Himalayas. The brothers were accompanied by natural scholars, tracking, evidence, interpreters, and scientists, and they are funded from the Chicago Field Museum and a rich donor.
Roosevelt was not ready for what they faced: the treacherous ice crossings in the Himalayas, the invaders are ready to attack travelers, and the air is so thin that it was easy to die of deprivation of oxygen. But they were driven by their aspirations to find a monster in clouds that were considered the most challenging cup on the ground.
The corridor, which crossed China and Tibet, was abandoned and forbidden, intense, snow and ice, he wrote Holt. In fact, there was no “strong tent enough” to withstand the mountains, and there is no hot fire enough to warm the explorers.
“This was Roosevels,” Holt says.
During the trip, the walls of the forests were closed in all sides, making the very high mountain height difficult to breathe. There was a bandits – including a “eight hundred sects of Tibetan dribbling” – who wandered in rugged terrain.
One night, their team disappeared from mules in mysterious circumstances and hunger became a flagrant possibility with a few rulings that exceed the dried green peas and rice. Lamasary Tibetan provided nutrition before the crew moved in a snowy storm -like storm.
While the dribbling pandas remained more than just imagination, scientists have seized birds, and they broke their necks and skin. The seizure of the largest possible number of samples in the museums of natural history, a whole family of nine golden monkeys-in the last type-was killed in the name of science.
After the rugged days and nights, the campaign was finally on the Panda path when reports about seeing a white bear from a nearby village. The indigenous people consider this monster “a supernatural being, a type of Demi deity”, written by Holt. The villagers have never tried to capture it and only agreed to take the white fishermen in search of them – for money.
At the base of the tree trunk, Panda Scat was discovered with bamboo in it, known to be the daily panda diet, along with his coarse white hair.
Soon a PAW trail in snow and bamboo half the filling led to their final goal. He was shot and killed on the horizon – panda!
“For explorers, it looked like the end,” Holt wrote. “In the five months of their campaign, the party gathered five thousand bird leather, two small mammals, and forty large mammals,” but not the great bear.
“I just realized the brothers here, in the end, that the brothers were wrong and that the panda was not the wild predator and the swallow they expected,” says Holt. The kindness has always changed their sense of goal – and immediately after chasing the panda, they were ill.
Pieces on the leg of Ted with bacteria that spread its trunk. The upcoming news revealed that Kermit was heading to bankruptcy, and he had to return to New York. Once Kermet left, Ted felt emotionally and physically, according to Holt.
“His body has suffered from months of sleep on the ground, frequent disease, and serious climbing,” Holt says.
“We shivered together in the bitter winter in the cold winter in the high mountains and we were disciplined in a wet heat of the semi -prosecutors. We have passed together with problems ranging from the missing mules to thieves. Now in all the possibilities, we will never meet again,” Ted later wrote.
He went down with malaria and was accepted at the Sigon Hospital, where doctors found that he was suffering from dysentery, due to bacteria or parasites.
The two brothers always depended on each of them, and now they were separated and barely speaking.
Kermet was bleeding, and worse, it became an alcoholic addict. With the rivers of his marriage, he began to obtain affairs. In June 1943, he placed a pistol under his chin and pulled the trigger.
Ted lived a longer year.
They have awakened pandamonium with panda hunting now to become excessive amounts to become one of the rarest mammals on the floor.
The author says: “Dark shades have fallen throughout their lives at the moment when the brothers simultaneously pulled their operators,” the author says.
Holt wrote: “He has chased the panda forever,” and they have awakened the “panda-believe” with panda fishing now to become excessive amounts to become one of the rarest mammals on the face of the earth.
