U.S. Attempt On Everest
(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 7 pun.) KATMANDU. August 30. A Chicago doctor, Christopher Sergei, has applied for permission to climb Mount Everest next spring and to look for the “abominable snowman” on the way. He will be the first American to attempt to climb the world’s highest peak. A Nepalese Foreign Office spokesman said that Dr. Sergei had agreed to pay the Nepal Government 8000 rupees in royalties—3ooo rupees for' Everest and 5000 rupees for the snowman hunt Moscow Radio said last week that an expedition from Leningrad University had left for the Pamir mountains in Soviet Central Asia to collect information about the snowman.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 15
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