LONE-HANDED VENTURE.
ATTEMPT TO CONQUER MOUNT EVEREST. REMARKABLE STORY ABOUT EX-ARMY CAPTAIN. CALCUTTA, July 17. An astonishing story of a man’s attempt to climb Everest alone is reported from Darjeeling. Maurise Wilson, an ex-Army captain, and member of the London Aero Club, aged 38, gained prominence in Juno, 1933, when he arrived in India in a second-hand Moth with the avowed intention of flying to Everest, and' landing somewhere on the mountain side and placing the Union Jack on the summit. He was warned not to fly over Nepal under pain of arrest and heavy penalty. Wilson then sold the aeroplane, but expressed a grim determination to conquer (Everest alone on foot. Wilson weeks later disappeared and was recently discovered at Darjeeling preparing for the venture. It transpires that he secretly recruited porters with whom he associated himself disguised es a porter. He suddenly evaded official surveillance and set off along the Rutuedge Expedition’s route to Everest. Arriving at the frontier, he sent the porters back and proceeded alone. No further news of him has been received.
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Wairarapa Age, 19 July 1934, Page 5
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