GETTING TOO OLD
NO MORE ASCENTS BY PROFESSOR PICCARD.
PARIS, May 12,
When Professor Piccard arrived at Havre from New York to-day in the liner Paris he declared that he had decided to make no more journeys up into the stratosphere. “I am too old for such acrobatics, ’’ he said. Nevertheless, he .intimated that two ascents would probably be mode from Belgium >by his assistants in the near j'utiir*!. He added that for the 'moment tlie plan to make an ascent .from ' the North Polar regions . have been .abandoned on account of the expense that; it would involve.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1933, Page 3
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