“LOST WORLD” CONQUERED
Plateau Untrodden For 12,000 Years
SEARCH FOR STRANGE ANIMALS
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(Received September 17, 8.40 p.m.)
GRAND CANYON (Arizona), Sep. 16. A signal fire at the top of Shiva Templa, which is a plateau rising to 4500 feet and untrodden by man for at least 12,000 years announced that nine scientists and five porters had conquered the “lost world.” The expedition was roped together and perilously groped its way for many hours up a perpendicular sandstone cliff 350 feet high. Only essential supplies were taken, these including traps in which it was hoped to ensnare animals unknown to modern science. The expedition also carried instruments for the study of surviving forms of ice age vegetation. Food will be parachuted from aeroplanes.
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Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 7
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