NIGHT OF AGONY
LOST ON ICE PEAK SCIENTISTS’ EXPERIENCE DELHI, October 28. A night spout oil an ice peak 3-),- miles high, with neither blankets or sleeping bags, was the harrowing experience of the German Himalayan expedition which set out in August in an attempt to conquer Kanclinnjunga, the third highest mountain in the world,'and which lias just returned to Darjeeling. isolated from their companions by an avalanche, which buried the entire outfit, a small party of climbers was forced to spend the night in the open and in such agonies that, when morning dawned, one man was snow-blind, and the remainder badly frost-bitten.
For several’ nights, the climbers bivouacked on narrow ice ledges. Eight arduous days were spent in cutting a stairciwo up the solid walls of ice and which had lo be re-cut during the descent.
The Germans established a new altitude record at Sikkarn, Himalaya, of 24,450 ft.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17095, 30 October 1929, Page 7
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