TO SCALE EVEREST

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 11

TO SCALE EVEREST

THE CHOSEN PvIETY

SELECT MOUNTAINEERS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, January 12,

The mountaineers for the Mount Everest Expedition have bow been selected. There are fourteen adventurers, tut not all the fourteen expect, even with the best of. luck and weather and health, to set foot on the crown, of the world. What will probably, take place, providing all goes well, will be for the mountain to be scaled to a height of 27,000, or, perhaps, 28,000 feet. Then a selected number will press on further still. It may remain for only ono man to reach the crest.

The selected fourteen are:—

Mr. Hugh Kuttledge, commander of tire expedition. He is 47 years of age, and experienced in dealing with the sensitive Tibetans. He has made many expeditions to the Himalayas and reached great heights. Mr. P. S. Smythe. Mr. Smytho led the expedition a year or so ago to the top of Mount Kamet, the highest peak yet reached by man. Mr. T. A. Broeklebank, famous as the stroko of the victorious Cambridge eight for three successive years. • He is nn Alpine climber of distinction.

.Major Boustead, a climber who, in the hot climate of the Sudan, has been in command of the Sudan Camel Corps. Mr. C. G. Crawford. Mr. Crawford knows the Himalayas, having been a member of the 1922 expedition1. Mr. Wyn Harris, who has made- noted ascents of the Alps and Mount Kenya.' Mr. J. Longland, well known in the North of England as an intrepid climber of the Cumberland mountains.

Captain Noel Odell, a geologist, and a member of the 1024 expedition, who expressed his belief afterwards- that Mallory and Irvine, who were lost, had probably reached the summit. He judged that from tho position in which they were last seen.

Mr. E. 0. Shebbeare, also a member of tho 1924 expedition. . Mr. E. E. Shipton, a member of the Mount Kamet expedition. Captain E. St. J. Birnie, a noted polo player. Captain Birnie has great knowledge of the Himalayan dialects, and is experienced on such expeditions as transport officer.

Dr. Raymond C. Greene, who was medkal officer to the Kamet expedition. ' . ■

Dr. "W. W. McLean, an activo member of the Alpine Club. ,Mr. L. B. Wager, who was a member of the British Arctjc Air Route Expedition, and was awarded the Polar Medal.