MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION
COMPLETION OF PERSONNEL; DEPARTURE EARLY IN NEW YEAR.. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Dec. 20. The nersonnel. of the Mt. Everest expedition which will leave England early next year has been completed by the addition of Messrs. T. A. Brocklebank and L. R. Wager. Mr. Wager was •’< member of the British Arctic air route expedition of 1931. Mr. Brocklebank "three times stroked the Cambridge crew to victory in the boat race. The party, which includes Mr. F. S. Smythe, who led the expedition which successfully scaled Mount 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 the joint committee of the Royal . Geographical Society and the Alpine Club.'
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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