MONSOON ARRIVES EARLY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 15

MONSOON ARRIVES EARLY

DIFFICULTY ON EVEREST (’LI M lIERX STILL WAITING HOPES OF FINAL ASCENT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Unitef Press Assn.) (Peed. Mav 2ii. 2.711 p.m.) LONDON, Alav 27. Mr. I lugli Putt ledge, the leader of the Everest expedition, in a copyright message dispatched from camp No. ,'i, says that since Thursday last the conditions have been extremely baffling. The monsoon arrived in the Darjeeling hills on Saturday and had advanced to Alomit Everest, on Sunday, when heavy snow fell. The previous snow never left the mountain, the gentle wind not being sullieiont to remove it. “1 brought the party to camp No. 3 again, so as to be ready, but will not invite disaster by a premature advance while the slopes of the North Col are in :i dangerous slate,” continues .Mr. Rut t ledge. ‘‘Avalanches now are falling. We must hope that', the present abnormal monsoon will be succeeded by a period of calmer weather. We are by no means downhearted.” .V Calcutta report says that fears that the early moonsoon may ruin the chances of the success of the expedition have been intensified by reports of almost continuous snow received at the Alipore observatory from the expedition.