YOUTH’S TORCH

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 19 (Supplement)

YOUTH’S TORCH

FIVE ATTEMPTS QN UNKNOWN. - Youth, much of it hardly in its cradle when the reign began, is resolute to keep alight the spirit of British exploration, , Five expeditions to the Arctic or the East are being planned in ..England this year, and four of the leaders have hardly ceased 4o be boys. They are men in determination, boys in zeal. A. R. Glen, who went two years a S° with the Oxford University Arctic Expedition when he was only 20, is leading his second Arctic expedition with a party of like-minded youngsters with an average age of 23. They will spend more than a year on the north coast or North-East Land. ,

A second Oxford University Arctic Expedition of undergraduates is being arr ranged, and follows the Ellesmere Land Expedition, now keeping itself warm on the roof of the world- Sir Ernest Shackleton's 23-year-old son Edward is there. Young Augustine Courtauld, who was marooned for five months on the Greenland ice-cap, and whose enforced silence kept all the world talking, is planning to climb the highest mountain in Greenland. The new Everest Expedition is maturing its plans to climb that fateful mountain. The advance arrangements are in the hands of Erie Earle Shipton, aged 27, who made a name in the expedition of 1933. Lastly, a youthful veteran among these boys, Major Ralph Bagnold, is to undertake another expedition to add to his exploit of travelling 6300 miles by car in the Libyan .Desert three years ago.