No word from mountaineers
-NZPA"'- Hong Kong Nothing had been heard of the progress of a New Zealand mountaineering team attempting to climb the 7703 metre Mount Molamenqing in the Tibetan Himalayas, said New Zealand’s Ambassador to China, Mr Harle Freeman-Greene, yesterday. The team of 11, headed by an Invercargill schoolteacher, Austin Brookes, left Peking on March 31 and is expected back early next month. Mr Freeman-Greene said in a telephone interview that the climbers were expected
to return to their base camp any day. “At that stage we expect to hear from them,” he said. There had been no reports which gave rise to any fears for the safety of the New Zealand'. team, which was attempting to become the first .to . climb Mount. Molamenqing. Earlier this month eight Japanese climbers lost their lives during a heavy snowstorm while attempting to climb the 7556 metre Mount Gongga in Sichuan Province. Mount Gongga is more than 1000 kilometres east of Mount Molamenqing.
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