MOUNT EVEREST

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 50, 22 November 1932, Page 9

MOUNT EVEREST

New British Attack EXPEDITION MEMBERS Experience and Youth Eleven mountaineers, including two doctors, have received invitations to accompany the fourth Mount Everest Expedition which will leave England early in the New Year. The expedition will be in charge of Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, a climber of wide experience. The other members, writes BrigadierGeneral 0. G. Bruce In “The Times,” are as follow: — Mr. F. S. Smyther.—He was a member of the Kanchenjunga Expedition in 1928 and the leader of the successful Kamet Expedition of last year, on which he was special correspondent of “The Times.” Captain J. E. Hugh Boustead.—A man with an extraordinary fine athletic record. He bias represented Great Britain as a boxer in the Olympic Games and also has a fine record as a mountaineer. For many years he has been employed in the Sudan with the Sudanese troops, but so keen was he on qualifying himself for’a Himalayan expedition that he fitted out a small one on his own account and did some quite excellent exploration and climbing in the Sikkim Himalayas. Captain J. Burney.—He has lately been in charge of the Bodyguard of the Governor of Bengal, and is known as quite a first-class polo player and a very fine squash-rackets player; and since his exploits with Mr. Smythe’s expedition to Kamet he is no doubt equally well known as a mountaineer. Mr. C. G. Crawford.—Like the leader of the expedition, Mr. Crawford has retired early from the Indian Civil Service. He was a member of the 1922 expedition, where he had the unpleasant experience of being carried down with the same avalanche which overwhelmed seven porters. He has had a very long alpine experience as a climber not only in the Alps and Himalayas, but also in the Canadian Rockies. His experience in the 1922 expedition will be of great value to the party. Mr. Wyn Harris.—One of the foremost among young modern mountaineers. He got his training in the Alps and British mountains, but since that time has done a great amount of climbing also in Africa, his latest exploit being a traverse of Mount Kenya by a route never previously attempted. Mr. -J. Longland.—He occupies a position in the mountaineering world of the North of England second to none. He is a fine representative of young modern English mountaineers and has an immense record of magnificent work behind him in the Alps, and will be a most valuable member of the expedition. Mr. Noel OdelL—To those who have read the history of the 1924 expedition it is almost unnecessary to introduce Mr. OdelL His record was almost the most extraordinary of any of that expedition, and at the present time he has lost none of his power and should prove of most valuable assistance. Mr. E. O. Shebbeare. —He is a conservator of forests under the Bengal Government. No man in his walk of life is better known. He thoroughly knows and understands the natives, not only of Sikkim but of Tibet and all the surrounding hill tracts. His particular role will be head of the transport arrangements, and his long experience In all these matters, to say nothing of his experience in the 1924 expedition, will be of the greatest possible value to the party. Mr. E. E. Shipton—Mr. Shipton is also from East Africa, and was probably the most prominent of Mr. Smythe’s companions on Kamet. He has had a great and varied experience of mountaineering of all kinds, and his record on Kamet is in itself very remarkable. Two doctors have also been invited. Dr. C. Raymond Greene was the medical officer with Mr. Smythe on the Kamet Expedition, and was one of the party which reached the summit. He was, when at Oxford, president of the Oxford Mountaineering Club, and has had a long experience of climbing in the Alps. He has every quality which goes to make a successful medical officer on a great mountaineering expedition. It is hoped that Dr. W. McLean will be the second doctor. Although of late years he has not done very much mountaineering, he is a member of the Alpine Club, as are the rest of the members of the expedition, and as a. second doctor in charge of the health of the expedition will be a fine coadjutor with Dr. Greene. His record as a mountaineer in the Alps is excellent, but hard work at his profession has prevented him fpr the last two or three seasons from being very active. With regard to the age of the members, General Bruce adds that all except Mr. Crawford and Mr. Shebbeare. whether doctors or climbers, as above enumerated, are well under 40 years of age.