AIRMEN BEATEN
EFFORT TO FLY OVER EVEREST RAREFIED AIR AND STRONG WIND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 11. (Received January 12, at. 10 a.in.) The American airmen, Richard Halliburton and Moyo Stevens, who are touring the world, made an unsuccessful attempt to fly over and round Mount Everest. They reached 18,000 ft ten miles from Everest, when they were forced to return owing to the rarefied atmosphere and a strong wind from Tibet. The airmen approached within two miles of Kanchanjanga. The flyers are this week continuing a tour which will take them by way of Burma, Malaya, New Guinea, and Australia. [Mount Everest is 29,141 ft high and Kanchanjanga 28,146ft.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 7
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