FLIGHT OVER TOP OF WORLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 May 1936, Page 4

FLIGHT OVER TOP OF WORLD

DRAMATIC GLIMPSE OF EVEREST’S PEAK VAIN SEARCH FOR BODIES OF LOST CLIMBERS (By Air Mail—From a Special Correspondent) LONDON, Gild May. An airman’s dream of spotting Mallory and Irvine, dead but triumphant after climbing cold Everest, is told with unconscious pathos by the Marquess of Clydesdale, who with Flight-Lieutenant Mclntyre, at last gives the world “The Pilots’ Book of Everest.” Film hook, lectures, and stories have been’- told about the 1933 flights. At last we have the real stuff by the men best qualified to- write it. “I had always . cherished the faint hope that it might he possible visually or by photograph, to establish that Mallory and Irvine, last, seen attacking the final I,oooft ol Everest, bad actually reached the summit,” writes Clydesdale. “As I came over the top I tilted the right wing and looked down. It was not possible to discern any hint of human remains, or of the apparatus. “I began to realise, that it was most unlikely that any trace could bo seen from the air. To the east and south was the steep.snow face on which they could not have lain, unless they had dropped into the small concave area just below, and there they would have been covered with snow.” Lord Clydesdale describes how lie and his companions had been driven by financial difficulties to contemplate luring :i commercial plane from a company that would have provided the pilot and have taken the vital part of the organisation in its own hands