PATRICIA GRACE
Tragedy hits Hillary team
NZPA-Reuter Kathmandu Two Australian climbers have been killed in an expedition led by the New Zealander, Peter Hillary, on Mount Everest, Nepal’s Tourism Ministry announced yesterday. A Ministry spokesman said the climbers were killed in falls yesterday after the six members of the expedition left their last camp at 7925 m in a final bid to reach the summit of the 8848 m mountain. He identified one of them as William Robert From, who died on his twentyeighth birthday.
The other climber who was killed fell first, at 7.30 a.m. and Mr From fell an hour later when he went in search of him. The other climber’s name was not released.
The expedition, sponsored by the Macquarie radio network in Australia, consisted of four Australians and two New Zealanders.
It was the third expedition led by Peter Hillary, a climber and ski instructor from Auckland, to be hit by a fatal accident.
In October, 1979, a fellow
New Zealander was killed on Mount Ama Dablam near Everest by an ice avalanche and last year an Australian and a New Zealander were killed while climbing Mount Makalu, east of Everest.
Peter Hillary, aged 29, is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953.
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