EVEREST EXPEDITION
PERSONNEL COMPLETED. DEPARTURE NEXT YEAR. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, December 20. The personnel of the Mt. Everest expedition, which leaves England early next year, has been completed by the addition of Messrs T. A. Brocklebank and L. R. Wager. The latter was a member of the British Arctic air route expedition in 1931. Mr Brocklebank three times stroked the Cambridge crew to victory in the Boat Race. The party, which includes Mr F. S. Smyth, who led the expedition which successfully scaled Mt. Kamet, the highest peak so far climbed by man, is being led by Mr Hugh Ruttledge, late of the Indian Civil Air Force. The expedition has been formed by a joint comipittee of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club.
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Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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129EVEREST EXPEDITION Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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