Expedition Retarded
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POINT BARROW (Alaska), May 13. Broken and mush ice. and a possibly cracked ankle bone retarding one of the team is slowing down the four-man British expedition on its trek to and across the North Pole.
The geophysicist, Mr Alan GUI, hurt an Ankle In a fall On May 7, and Captain Kenneth Hedges, the team's physician, thinks a bone may be cracked.
Since April I, with four sledges and 39 huskies, the four men had progressed from 74 degrees 25 minutes north, 156 degrees 25 minutes west, to 79 degrees 06 minutes north, 164 degrees 30 minutes west, by May 8. (•
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31678, 14 May 1968, Page 17
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