VICTIMS OF EVEREST

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7

VICTIMS OF EVEREST

REPORT OF FATALITIES

CONFIRMED

THE CLIMB ABANDONED.

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LONDON, 21st June,

Information has been received at Mr> Leigh-Mallory's home confirming his death and that of Mr. Irvine.

The climb has been abandoned, but there are no further details.

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LONDON, 21st June.

"The Times," in an editorial, expressing regret at the deaths of Messrs. Leigh-Mallory and Irvine, recalls a recent comment by Mr. Leigh-Mallory, who said, "The third time we walk up the Rongbuk Glacier will bo the last, for better or for worse," thus revealing a prophetic instinct- of what the future held iv sto::e.

(AUSrUAMAN-NKW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 21st June.

The "Daily Chronicle" recalls that Mr ; Leigh-Malldry, in 1922, 'with Dr. Somervell and Major Norton, broke the ■world's record by climbing a height of 26,800 feet. He was with Colonel Ho-ward-Bury on the reconnaissance, expedition in 1921. Mr. Leigh-Mallory narrowly escaped death\ during General Bruee's second expedition in 1922, when he and otiiers were overwhelmed by an avalanche, and seven perished. When a senior boy at Winchester he was taken for an Alpine trip, in consequence of a chance remark' to a master, and that was the beginning of his career as a climber.

Mr. Irvine was one of six recruits to the latest expedition. He accompanied Mr. Odell in the expedition to Spitzbergeii last year, when he was a member ot the sledge party which made the new traverse. He rowed for Oxford ra the University boat race in 1920