SNOW ON EVEREST
CLIMBERS DELAYED MONSOON COMES EARLY / . Times Cable""* LONDON, May 25 In a copyright message to the Times, wirelessed from Camp 3 on Mount Everest, via Calcutta, Mr. Hugh Puttledge, leader of the British Everest expedition, says:— "Since last Thursday conditions have been extremely baffling. The monsoon arrived in the Darjeeling Hills on May 23 and advanced to here next day, when heavy snow fell. The previous snow had never left the mountain and the gentle wind was not sufficient to remove it. "I brought the party to Camp 3 from Camp 1 again so as to be ready, but I will not invite disaster by a premature advance while the slopes of the North Col are in a dangerous state. Avalanches, are now falling. Wo must hope that the present, abnormal monsoon will be succeeded by a period of c liner weather. We are by no means downhearted." Another source in Calcutta says fears that the early monsoon will ruin thp climbers' chances of success are -intensified by reports of almost continuous snow received at Alipore Observatory from the expedition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22429, 27 May 1936, Page 14
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