HIMALAYAN DISASTER
LEADER INCLUDED AMONG VICTIMS DR LUFT THE SOLE SURVIVOR Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SIMLA, June 22. (Received June .23, at 10 a.m.) Herr Wien perished with the Nanga Parbat expedition. The sole survivor is Dr Ulrich Luft, of Munich, who telegraphed from Gilgit that he was safe and well, and was not involved in the disaster. , Details of the disaster are _ still awaited from Major Kirkbridge, British political agent at Gilgit, who went to the spot after telegraphing the first news. [A previous message stated: An avalanche overwhelmed the German Nanga Parbat expedition, killing seven climbers and nine Gurkha porters, but th# : leader (Herr Wien) escaped.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 8
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107HIMALAYAN DISASTER Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 8
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