LOSS OF TWO MEMBERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 9

LOSS OF TWO MEMBERS.

Everest Party Returning. MALLORY AND IRVINE KILLED. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. DELHI, June 20. Of the Everest expedition, Mallory and Irvine were killed. The rest of the party are safe. (Received 5.5 p.m., June 22.) LONDON, June 21. Information received at Mallory’s heme confirm his death, also the deatn of Irvine.'. The climb has been abandoned, but there are no further details; CLOSE OF DISTINGUISHED CAREERS. MALLORY’S PROPHETIC INSTINCT.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright (Received 5.30 p.m., June 22.) LONDON, June 21.

The “Daily Chronicle” recalls that Mallory, in 1922, with Dr. Somerwell and Major Norton, broke the world’s record , by climbing a height of 26,800 feet. He was with Colonel Howard Barry on a reconnaissance expedition in 1921. Mallory narrowly escaped death, during Colonel Bruce’s second expedition in 1922, when he and others were overwhelmed by an avalanche,

seven perishing. "When a senior boy".at Winchester, he was taken for an alpine trip in consequence of a chance remark to a master. That was the beginning of his career as a climber.

Irvine was one of six recruits to the latest expedition. He accompanied Dr. O’Dell, in the Merton Expedition to Spitzbergen last year, when he was a member of the sledge party who made a new traverse. He rowed for Oxford in the University boat race in 1920. “The Times,” editorially regretting, the deaths of Mallory and Irvine, recalls Mallory’s recent comment: “The third i time we walk up Rongbuk glacier' will be the last, for better or for worse,” thus revealing a prophetic instinct of what the future held in stcre, .