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The expedition had no permission at all to transgress the Tibet border, which crosses the north slope of the peak. Pilots Clydesdale and Mclntyre were careful not to swing over the Delai Lama's land. In the opinion of Tibetan monks, they should have given up the whole notion. "The Goddess Mother of the World," the monks said, was an angry, vengeful deity. Quick to maim intruders, she killed outright 13 of them who attempted to climb her in 1924. Such talk might have curdled the blood of many a man—but not the blood of a Black Douglas.