HIMALAYAN PEAK
FEAT OF YOUNG CLIMBERS
CUMBERSOME GEAR AVOIDED
LONDON, August 8,
Tliu "Daily Mail's" Calcutta correspondent isays that two young British Army officers, Lieutenants J. B. Herrison and J. Waller, climbed within 1000 feet of the summit of Mount 1S Tun Kun, in the Himalayas, a "peak of 23,500 feet, when they were forced to abandon the attempt. The climbers wanted to show that previous attempts, including those on Evei-qst and Kinchinjunga, were made unnecessarily cumbersome and expensive, and therefore carried only absolute necessities fov living. They took a squad of coolies to carry food. The officers encountered .heavy snowdrifts and blinding storms, and wero marooned in their tent for days. They suffered from s,now-blindness, also agonising thirst, because the failure of their spirit lamp prevented their boiling snow for drinking.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13
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