Britons ' Everest bid continues
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) KATMANDU, November 5. The British expedition on Mount Everest is moving upwards again, after having been halted by bad weather for almost three weeks.
A message received in Katmandu yesterday from Major Kelvin Kent, one of the team, said that it was hoped to make the final bid for the 29,028-foot summit within the next week.
On Wednesday, Douglas Scott, aged 31, a Nottingham schoolteacher, and Michael Burke, also 31, a London film cameraman, re-estab-lished the highest camp, at 24,600 feet, which had been destroyed by a rockfall, and pushed on to the site of Camp Five, at 26,000 feet, carrying supplies with two Sherpas, on Thursday.
Writing from the team’s base camp, Major Kent said: “This really is the final effort. This is it —if the weather continues okay. The wind is the critical factor. It has been up to 120 miles an hour near the top. We could have Camp Six established in a week. “Then it is an unknown quantity. My guess is November 10 to 12 for the summit assault.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33066, 6 November 1972, Page 17
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