MOUNT EVEREST
PROPOSAL TO CONQUER IT FROM AEROPLANE
CAPTAIN NOEL’S PLAN
New York, October 12.
To conquer Mount Everest by aeroplane is the plan of Captain John Noel, of the Royal Geographical Society, London. A man can be 1 wered by rope from an aeroplane flying six miles high. lam willing to be that man,” said the explorer. “Food supplies would first be dropped, and then the adventurer lowered. Using liquid oxygen, he would then walk down th.e mountain.” Two of Noel’s men in the last attempt reached within 600 feet of the summit when they were lost.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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100MOUNT EVEREST Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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