EVEREST CLIMBERS
DOUBLE PERIL FACED WIND AND AVALANCHES LONDON. June 1 Experts state that under the most favourable circumstances it will take the Everest climbers from seven to eight days to reach the summit. They will face a double peril, first, the continuance of the north-westerly winds, in which it has been stated no man can live; second, a return of the monsoon snows, which bring avalanches that may cut them off from their base. The climbers, therefore, will Bucceed only if the north-west winds now blowing the snow from the mountains drop before they reach the higher ridges, and if the lull in the monsoon lasts until they have safely descended. Brigadier E.~F. Norton, who was a member of the Everest expeditions of 1922 and 1924, says he thinks the climbers still have a chance of success. It will take two days, if conditions improve, to reach Camp 3 and another to reach Camp 4. They push on to Camp 5 the next morning and make Camp 6 on the sixth day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22435, 3 June 1936, Page 13
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