ATTACK ON EVEREST
BRITISH PARTY'S PLANS LETTER FROM MR. SMYfHE LONDON, April 20 Mr. F. S. Smythe, a member of the British expedition, which will attempt to scale Mount Everest this year, says, in a letter which has reached Kalimpong, Bengal, that the expedition will proceed in two parties into Tibet, where the weather is hot and cloudless. A feature of the 1938 Everest expedition is that the party numbers only seven climbers. There is a school of thought that contends that the previous parties have had too many members and that the mobility of a small party is vital in an attack on the peak, which, so far, has been impregnable.
Many climbers are, therefore, 'of opinion that the present expedition stands a better chance of success than its predecessors. Even so, it is believed that the chances are against the expedition overcoming the tremendous natural difficulties involved in climbing to the top of the world's highest mountain. r The members of the expedition are Mr. W. H. Tilman, leader, Captain N. E. Odell, Captain P. R. Oliver, and Messrs. E. E. Shipton, F. S. Smyth®, C. B. M. "Warren and Peter Lloyd.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 9
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194ATTACK ON EVEREST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 9
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