EVEREST EXPEDITION
A Great Adventure CONOUEST IN CLOUDS AVIATORS IN FLIGHT A TREMENDOUS RISK DRAUGHTS OE OXYGEN . fly Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (AiLeft-, and N.Z. Cable.) (Copyright London Times) J (Received Jan. 16 9 a.m.) London January 15 ••• The Mount Everest expedition’s i aeroplanes are approaching ilie ; southern face of Everest and are j expected to reach the summit uhe final si age in. Jess tlmn> 90 minute*. Two aeroplanes started from Piirnea 251 miles north of Calcutta, to erbsg The jealously, guarded frojn.fior of Nepal and thence xq fly 13.000 ictyt above a savage wilderness a;nd a ‘ par hi ess jungle till Everest, hitherto ‘appearing as one peak among many , stamds alone and peerless, i The airmen take increasing ! draughtg of pure oxygen the containers of which are electrically heated to present freezing.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3932, 16 January 1933, Page 5
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