HILLARY TO RETURN

Press, Volume C, Issue 29557, 5 July 1961, Page 11

HILLARY TO RETURN

Flying Home In 10 Days (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter— Copyright) N$W YORK, July 4 Sir Edmund Hillary said yesterday he will fly home to New Zealand in about 10 days with the injured SubLieutenant Peter Mulgrew. the Associated Press reported from Nepal. Lieutenant Mulgrew, aged 34, of the Royal New Zealand Navy, was badly frostbitten while trying to climb Mount Makalu (27,790 ft as a member of Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan scientific exipedition. Dr. James Dick, who has been attending Lieutenant Mulgrew since he was rescued from Makalu by a helicopter. said the thumb and two fingers of Lieutenant Mulgrew's frostbitten hand would have to be amputated this week, and later some toes also would have to be amputated. Lieutenant Mulgrew will go to a Navy hospital in ■Auckland. Speaking from a bed in the mission hospital. Lieutenant Mulgrew said he would like to continue to serve in the Navy, in which he has spent 19 years. He said he did not think the amputations would be a bar to his continued service. Mrs Mulgrew, who flew to Katmandu last Friday, was by her husband’s bedside while he was talking They have two daughters. 7 and 5 years old, in Auckland. Lieutenant Mulgrew said the expedition on which he received frostbite and a pulmonary infection “has been of good value to scientists.”