CLIMBING IN RUSSIA
George Lowe In Party (NJS^.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, October 11. Mr George Lowe has been chosen as one of a 12-man British team to take part in an Anglo-Russian assault on the Soviet Union’s highest peaks next year. Mr Lowe, a former New Zealand schoolteacher, was a member of Sir John Hunt’s successful team on Mount Everest in 1953, and accompanied Sir Vivian Fuchs to the South Pole, the “Glasgow Herald” said yesterday. The 12 climbers would join a Russian team next June on an expedition into the Soviet’s Pamir mountain range, the newspaper said. The British team would be led by Sir John Hunt. Russian permission had been given the team to stay 66 days between June and July. The expedition was the first of its kind, the newspaper said. One of its objectives would be to scale 24,500 ft Mount Stalin, Russia’s highest peak.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29643, 13 October 1961, Page 9
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