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EVEREST EXPEDITION DIFFICULT CONDITIONS LONDON, May 25. A copyright message from Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, at camp 3 ou Mt. Everest, says that since May 21 conditions have been extremely baffling. “The monsoon arrived on the Darjeeling Hills on May 23 and advanced here the next day, when heavy snow fell. The previous snow had never left’ the mountain, the gentle wind not being sufficient to remove it. 1 brought the party to camp 3 again so as to be ready, but I will not invite disaster by a premature advance while the slopes of the North Col are in a dangerous state. Avalanches are now falling. “We must hope that the present abnormal monsoon will be succeeded by a period of calmer weather. We are by no means downhearted.” Another source at Calcutta says that fears that the early monsoon will ruin the chances of success are intensified by reports of almost continuous snow received at the Alipore Observatory from the expedition.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 5
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