DEATH ON EVEREST.
Mr Maurice Wilson’s Fate High on Mountain.
United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, July 19.
Mr Maurice Wilson, who ; slipped out of Darjeeling a few weeks ago to make a forbidden lone attempt to climb Mount Everest, has lost his. life near Camp 4, at a height of 22,990 feet, which was established / by last year’s expedition.
Mr Wilson was accompanied by only three porters one of whom was left behind with dysentery while the remaining two went with him to Camp 3. Wilson gave them instructions to wait for a fortnight and pressed on alone with a small tent, three loaves of bread, two tins of porridge and a camera. > The porters waited for a month and then returned to Darjeeling. It is beb’eved, that Mr Wilson perished either in a treacherous crevasse or ;k an avalanche.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 20 July 1934, Page 1
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