Lowe To Climb In Russia

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 18

Lowe To Climb In Russia

(N Copyright) LONDON, April 17. Mr George Lowe, the New Zealander who was with Sir John Hunt and Sir Edmund Hillary on Everest and was a photographer on the Fuchs-Hillary Antarctic expedition, is to be a member of Sir John Hunt’s party to climb in the Soviet Union between July and September.

It will be a combined British and Russian expedition and Mr Lowe will again be the photographer. i “There will be 12 of us from Britain, including Sir John,” said Mr Lowe. “We fly to Moscow on June 30 or July 1 and join up with the Russian team there—probably about six of them. "We fly down to Dushanake, which is the capital of Tazikstan, east of Samarkand and near the Afghanistan border. “The expedition arises out

of a contact Sir John for whom the Russians have great admiration—made when he went to the Caucasus in 1958. The Russians subsequently sent a party over to Britain and now they have given Sir John permission to take the expedition to their biggest and most distant mountains.

"The main objects of the expedition are to get to know Russians better and to climb.” Mr Lowe will be shooting a film and taking photographs for publication in the United Kingdom and the United States. The expedition is due back in London on August 3—five days before Mr Lowe marries Sir John Hunt's daughter at Remenham, near Hen-ley-on-Thames. Mr Lowe is working on a book, an “Atlas of Mountaineering of the World,” which will include sections on New Zeeland, Australia, and Antarctica. It is due to be published at the end of this year.