Experiences On Everest
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) KATMANDU, June 11
Ice cornices on Mount Everest were worse on the recent American expedition than on Sir Edmund Hillary’s 1953 climb, James Whittaker said yesterday. Whittaker reached the top on May 1, ' Describing hazards on his climb to a press conference, he said that on the way down, a cornice—an over-hanging mass of hardpacked snow and ice—broke leaving a gap which he could see through to. Tibet.
The cornices appeared worse than on Hillary’s climb and projected 20 to 30 feet from the ridge—“very fragile and delicate,” Whittaker said.
At one stage of the climb he slipped and hung upside down on a rope for several minutes, unable to call for help. “I realised I had to get out of the situation myself. However, I managed to turn myself upright again and went on,” he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 15
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