ATTACK ON EVEREST

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19899, 30 May 1936, Page 8

ATTACK ON EVEREST

4.30 O’CLOCK EDITION.

UNFAV OURABLE WEATHER, lONOOONS AND SNOW. .____ ATTEMPT DELAYED. United Press Assn—Exec. 'l'el. copyrilhkl \Received May 30. 3.13 p.m. LONDON, May 29. A copyright message from the Huttledge camp says that owing to; the reports of a monsoon travelling north from lndia, and also it heavy mountain snowfall CampA'l‘hree has again been evacuated. : Snow will preclude an attack on the l lummit for some time. ‘ The first assault party “as in posi— ; tion on the North Col on May 15, a week earlier than planned, and had the snow cleared Everest might havei been climbed under ideal conditions;‘ but owing to the absence or normal' north-west winds 3 monsoon reached. the Himalayas in great strength ten. dlys before it was expected, rendering the slopes oi’ the North Col unsafe. To this cause were due the fetal guenche in 1922 and the avalanchel 1935 during Mr Shipton‘s reconnaissance. I The only hope is a temporary break in the monsoon and the removal of] snow by north-west winds. The North (:01 will, it“ necessary.| he climbed at night when frost binds the slope. i “We shall not abandon the “wool. until all pculbllltlee are explored." the memo. concludes.