EVEREST EXPEDITION.
TWELVE MEMBERS CHOSEN. AIR H. RUTTLEDGE THE LEADER. (Oftlclal Wlrela**.) RUGBY, Dec. 10. Twelve members of the party which will make an attempt on Mount Everest next year have been chosen. The leader is Mr Hugh Ruttledge, and the party Includes eight others —of whom Mr F. S. Smythe is one—who have already climbed once or more times on Mount Everest.The selectors have had the assistance of ttie central medical establishment of the Royal Air Force in choosing candidates best fitted to the special conditions of the Everest attemptMr Ruttledge, who is a retired officer of the Indian Civil Service, led the unsuccessful expedition which attempted to climb Mount Evbrcst in 1933-
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19762, 18 December 1935, Page 7
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114EVEREST EXPEDITION. Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19762, 18 December 1935, Page 7
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