EVEREST PARTY’S DISASTER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 June 1924, Page 7

EVEREST PARTY’S DISASTER.

To!! in Human Life. MR MALLORY’S PREMONITION. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, June 22. The “Daily Mail” says that Mr Mallory, writing shortly before the fatal journey, said: “What we have to do is to make a safe way. We expect no mercy from Everest, but hope he will not take much notice of the little group busy on his great north side, seeking to sting his very nose tip.”

Canon Mallory, of St. John’s Vicarage, Birkenhead, who received news of his son’s death on Friday night, states that W eunesday last was his son’s thirty-eighth birthday. Sir Francis Younghusband, interviewed recalled a remark by Mr Irvine before his departure: “It is the duty of the Alpine Club to climb as near as it can to Heaven.”

NO DIRECT NEWS

BEWILDERMENT AT DARJEELING ' BASE. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. /(Received 12.25 a.m., June 24.) DELHI, Juno 23. Advices from Calcutta state that there is great bewilderment at the non-receipt of direct news from tho Everest expedition. Scanty iniormation, so far has been received iron. London. Even General Bruce, who is iii Darjeeling awaiting the party, . is without knowledge other than that m the English cables. ' ' The matter is all tho more strange because Darjeeling has been in regular communication with the party so far. General Bruce has issued a statement that he knows nothing of the alleged disaster.