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THREE GERMAN CLIMBERS ALL HOPE ABANDONED. Prsßß Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Monday, 8.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Sunday. All hope has been abandoned of finding alive three German climbers, Merkl, Wieland, and Welzenbach, who were lost in a lilizzard on Nanga Parbat in the Kashmir Himalayas. Two British officers who were lent to the expedition, Captain Sangster and Captain Frier, have returned to Srinagar. They state that the bodies of seven Darjeeling porters have been recovered but it was impossible to find the Germans yet owing to the weather conditions.
All attempts to reach the summit have been abandoned, but every effort will be made to recover all the bodies.
(Nanga Parbat is a Himalayan peak in the south-west of Baltistan, having a height of 26,600 feet).
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 July 1934, Page 5
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