EVEREST CLIMBERS
TIIE ADVANCE RESUMED IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER WEAKENING OF THE MONSOON (Received June 1, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 1 Tho leader of the Mount Everest expedition, Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, in a wireless message to tho Daily Telegraph from Camp One, says that a report from tho meteorologist at Alipore on Friday indicated a temporary weakening of the monsoon. Simultaneously, the wind in tho Everest region veered strongly to the north-west and began blowing snow in great clouds from the mountain. This opportunity was not to bo missed, and the climbing party on Saturday resumed its advance up the east Bongbuk Glacier. It will take two days to climb the last pyramid, but it might be done in ono with luck. Norton, a member of the party, recalls that conditions were almost identical in 1924, but then there was no wireless and the climbers could not discover whether it was the monsoon or a local disturbance. He considers that if the monsoon arrives in earnest while the present climbers are at a high altitude things will be black indeed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 9
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