SCALING MOUNT EVEREST
LONDON, June 14. One of tlie members of the party describes the difficulties of the .Mount ; Everest expedition. A plague of leeches fastened on the mules, causing a deep | trail of blood along the route. The trek to Sikkim (Tibet) resolved iteelf into up and down scrambles over precipitous cliffs 3000 ft high. Many mules were knocked up and were abandoned to the vultures. There was a terrible breakdown in the transport at the verv beginning of the expedition until local mules were secured. These were wonderfully adept at climbing the slippery stone causeways. He described a wonderful zone of rhododendrons, stretching for miles and covering the hillsides with a blaze of colour of all imaginable hues. Dr A. AI. Kellas, whose death was reported on Friday, was a famous mountaineer. He had devoted his life to testing the use of oxygen to overcome breathing difficulties in high altitudes, and he was accompanying the Mount Everest expedition for this purpose. He recently ascended Mount Kabrn (20.000 ft) ill order to obtain photographs of Mount Everest. His death was the result of ceaseleea exertions and overstrain.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 16
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