ONWARD TO HIS DEATH
TRAGEDY OF HIMALAYAN SLOPES CUMBER LOST IN SNOW (United Service) DELHI, Friday. Detailed information has been received of the death of an American explorer, Mr. Edgar Farmer, while he was ascending Mount Kinchinjunga, in the Himalayas. Mr. Farmer was an engineer in the employ of the Standard Oil Company, New York. He came to India on six months’ leave. He started on April 27 from Darjeeling with 10 coolies and camp followers. The expedition was equipped with appliances for the supply of oxygen. The coolies, say Mr. Farmer, after establishing a fourth camp at a height of 22,000 ft, went by himself higher up with a small Kodak camera, to establish a fifth camp, on a sunny morning through waist-deep snow, in spite of the coolies’ warnings. Mr. Parmer appears to have slept that night in a snow cave, and was seen next morning climbing at about 2.5,000 ft, hut was never seen again.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 9
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158ONWARD TO HIS DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 9
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