EVEREST PARTY RELAXES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 9

EVEREST PARTY RELAXES

PICTURES IN LONDON NEWSPAPERS CSpecial Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 11 pjn.) LONDON, July 20. London newspMpers publish photographs of members of tbe British Everest expedition relaxing at the “Outward Bound” mountain school at Gatehouse, Eskdale. Cumberland, as the guests of Mr Eric Shipton, warden of the school. „ ... . The “Manchester Guardian, which prints a three-column picture of the team, says: “Mr Shipton, whose reconnaissance of the southfern approach to Everest opened the way for succeeding Swiss and British expeditions, is host to nine'memberg of the British party. He has been able to offer the climbers, who include Sir John Hunt and Sir Edmund Hillary, the first two peaceful days since they left Katmandu, and a well-earned rest after exhausting weeks of ‘lionisation.’ “Even so, they could not keep away from the hills, and went on a practice climb with some students. Sir Edmund Hillary "said they might do one or two more easy climbs in the Lake District, but nothing difficult ‘We’are not rock-climbing experts,’ he said. ‘I am quite sure some of your Cumberland farmers and shepherds could easily beat us up Scafell.’ ” The “Daily Telegraph” publishes a photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary talking to Mr Shipton, and the “Daily Herald” has a front-page doublecolumn photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary laughing and carrying on his shoulders Christopher MacKeown, the two-year-old son of. an instructor at the climbing school.