Cherry Garrard Gives Best Wishes To Hillary’s Men

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 12

Cherry Garrard Gives Best Wishes To Hillary’s Men

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 1.

Hero of “The Worst Journey in the World,” Mr Apsley Cherry Garrard, has written from London to the Ross Sea Committee about the relics of that Antarctic journey discovered last summer by the New Zealand Antarctic expedition. With his good wishes to Sir Edmund Hillary and his men, he included the advice on, terrain and climate which will be forwarded south during the next radio-telephone exchange between Wellington and McMurdo Sound. “Personally, I think New Zealand an excellent home for the things from Cape Crozier,” said Mr Cherry Garrard, who as a member of the Scott expedition, made a four-month journey in the depths of winter to Cape Crozier, the northernmost point of Ross Island. The relics were discovered in the remains of a stone-walled hut left by his party at Cape Crozier. “New Zealand was most good to us,” wrote Mr Cherry Garrard. “Wish Hillary the best of luck from me and for his men. Warn Him with dog teams to watch out

for crevasses near White Island,” he said. Recalling the dog team of the 1910-12 expedition which plunged through the snow covering of a crevasse in this area. Mr A. S. Helm, secretary of the committee, said letters of good wishes to the New Zealand expedition had also been received recently from the famous Australian explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson, and from Dr. E. S. Maryhall and Sir Jameson Adams, the last two named were the sole survivors of Shackleton’s fourman polar party which reached within 97 miles of the South Pole several years before Amundsen’s conquest.