EVEREST CONQUERED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12313, 5 April 1933, Page 4

EVEREST CONQUERED

CLEARED BY 100 FfcET magnificent pictures SECURED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright LONDON, April 4. The Houston 'planes piloted by Squadron-Leaders the Marquis _f Cyidesdale and Mclntyre conoi-Hfe. the world’s highest mountain, clearing the summit by over a hundred flight was accomplished in exact lv three hours with no more fuss than a service flight in England. The only mishap was a fracture of the cinematographer's bonnet oxygen pine over the summit. It was not noric-ed until faintness and violent stomach pains compelled him to sit in the cockpit. Tying a handkerchief over the fracture he soon recovered sufficiently to continue mgThe air survey was unsatolaitor, because both tlie cameras failed on part of the flight. Nevertheless they produced magnificent photographs of the crest of Everest and the surrounding peaks, including a close-up view of the entire mountain peak showing the main southern -lopes and the final ridge where srallory and Irvine lost their lives, .-.ho the summit itself. The Marquis of Clydesdale -aid both the aeroplanes flew over the summit of Everest at 10.3 They felt no bumps and they flew for a quarter of an Hour in the vicinity of rbe, summit. CLOTHING ELECTRICALLY HEATED. AIRMAN'S KNEES SCORCHED. LONDON. April 4. While taking photographs during an earlier test flight at Karachi. Colonel L. V- Stewart Blacker scorched his knees with the electrical heating apparatus. Squadron-Leader the MaTqais of Clvdesdale i.ncT Colonel Blanker too* the Houston Westland > T an€ up and reached a corrected altitude of :£LOOO feet in 130 minutes when the Marquis of Cfvdesd ale’s l«*ft irojzgle and Colonel Blacker* s richt goggle frosted, causing: inconvenience The electrical" heating of the airmen's cloth'ing was rlso troublesome and* Colonel Blacker* s bare knew were scorched through his flyins-sort, when he knelt to take photog’ through the trap-door. otfcenr’M^fc equipment was satisfactory. Colonel Blacker trietf all methods of photography. and was ble to put bis bead and shoulders outside the cockpit, for a minute, without discomfort.

Visibility was rxtrpor*'inar>lV coo-?, extending for HO mi’es rlrn- the coa«t. while inlan<l the airmen- saw whit-c clouds, which it wa* behoved rented on the Kuhimnligsich Mountains on the southern froiitiei of Afghanistan. 100 mile*; from Knmchi. The view with strip*; of blue *;ky, white clouds, a purple dim haze, and the yellow desert. made- a remarkable futuristic picture.