EXPEDITION TO HIMALAYAS
TENSING ORGANISING INDIAN PARTY (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW DELHI, Sept. 20. An eight-man Indian mountaineering expedition will leave Calcutta next Tuesday for Darjeeling .to climb the 22,010 ft virgin peak of Pandim, about 10 miles south-east of Kanchanjunga, in the Himalayas.
The Sherpa Tensing, joint conqueror of Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, is making the arrangements for the expedition, and he will also select six experienced porters to accompany it.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27151, 22 September 1953, Page 9
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