MOUNT EVEREST PARTY
PERSONNEL NOW COMPLETE
READY FOR LATEST ATTEMPT British Official Wireless (Received December 21, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 20. The personal of the Mount Everest Expedition, which leaves England early next year, has been completed by the addition of Mr T. A. Brocklebank and Mr L. R. Wager. The latter was a member of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in 1931, while Mr Brocklebank three times stroked the Cambridge University crew to victory in the boat race. , The party, which includes Mr F. S. Smyth, who led the expedition which sucessfully scaled Mount Kamat (25,431 ft), the highest peak so far climbed by man, is being led by Mr Hugh Rutledge, late of the Indian Civil Air Force. The expedition has been formed by a joint committee of the Royal Geographical Society, and the Alpine Club.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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139MOUNT EVEREST PARTY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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