AMERICAN EXPLORER LOST.
ATTEMPT TO CONQUER MIGHTY KIN CHIN JUN G A WARNINGS UNHEEDED. Sun Cable. Received Saturday, 2.30 a.rn. DELHI, Juno 14.Details have arrived of the death of an American explorer while ascending Kinchinjunga. Mr. Edgar Fanner, engineer in the employ of the Standard Oil Company o! New York, came to India on six months’ leave. He started on April 27 from Darjeeling with ten coolies and camp foliovvers. The expedition was equipped with appliances for the sup ply of oxygen. The coolies state that Farmer, after establishing his fourth camp at a height of 22,000 feet, alone went higher with a small kodak to establish his fifth camp one sunny morning, though the going was waist deep in snow. Despite the coolies’ warning, he appears to have slept that night in a snow cave and was seen next morning climbing at about 25,000 feet but he was never seen again. Kinchinjunga is a peak in the Eastern Himalayas, 28,150 feet high. If? neighbour. Mt. Everest, is 29.002 feet.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1929, Page 7
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