EVEREST ASCENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 5

EVEREST ASCENT.

DEATH OF TWO MEN. THE! CLIMB ABANDONED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 21. Information received at Air. Mallory’s home confirms his death, and also the death of Mr. Irvine. ‘The climb has been abandoned, but there are no further details. The Daily Chronicle recalls that Mr Mallory in 1922, with Dr. Somenvell and Major Norton, broke the world's record by climbing to a height of 26,800 reet. He was with Colonel Howard Barry on a reconnaissance expedition m 1921. Mr. Mallory narrowly escaped death during General Bruce’s second expedition in 1922, when he and others were overwhelmed by an avalanche seven perishing. When a senior boy at Winchester lie was taken for an alpine trip in consequence of a chance remark to a master, and that was the he S> nnin S, °f his career as a climber. Mr. Irvine was one of six recruits to the latest expedition. He accompanied Mr. Odell in the Merton expedition to Spitsbergen last year, when he was a member of a sledge party who ™ ade a , new traverse. He rowed for 1990 IX 111 tie ITn,versit y boat race in

The Times, editorially regretting the deaths of Messrs. Mallory and indue, Mallory’s recent comment: i i timo we wa,k U P the Rongbulc Glacier will be the last for better or tor worse,” thus revealing a prophetic instinct of what the future held in store.