Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/50 - Exploring Mount Neverest
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $50$
- Exploring Mount Neverest
- Professor Walkingholme, one of the exploring party, was allotted the special task of making a complete circuit of the base of the mountain at a certain level.
- The circuit was exactly $100$ miles in length and he had to do it all alone on foot.
- He could walk $20$ miles a day, but he could only carry rations for $2$ days at a time,
- the rations for each day being packed in sealed boxes for convenience in dumping.
- He walked his full $20$ miles every day and consumed $1$ day's ration as he walked.
- What is the shortest time in which he could complete the circuit?
- This simple question will be found to form one of the most fascinating puzzles that we have considered for some time.
- It made a considerable demand on Professor Walkingholme's well-known ingenuity.
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Historical Note
In the words of Dudeney himself:
- The idea was suggested to me by Mr. H.F. Heath.
Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Locomotion and Speed Puzzles: $50$. -- Exploring Mount Neverest
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Speed & Distance Puzzles: $77$. Exploring Mount Neverest