EVEREST AGAIN ATTACKED

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 20

EVEREST AGAIN ATTACKED

Four Americans who will shortly join fpur Englishmen in the first ,ai> tempt ever made to climb-' "Wanda Dcvi, the 25,66Ut Himalayan mountain, were in England in June. They ire all Harvard University men-. One,of them,' Charles Houston, a medical student, described the plans for -the expedition, which is being financed by the members out of their own'pockets. The party were to assemble at Simla on July 8 and proceed as far as possible' during the monsoon, which ends ,in the latter part of August. "Our plans," he said, "differ"from those/of the Everest expeditions, because we intend to travel light. We shall < keep the number of porters to the minimum. We expect to make about six camps on the way up." Mr. Houston went on to explain that the expeditiiba hopes to follow in the footsteps of Mr,. H. W. Tilman, one of its members, and Mr. E. E. Shipton, of the recent Everest expedition. In 1934 they got through the narrow gorge penetrating the 20,000 ft rim of mountains surrounding the central peaks, and-were the first white men to reach the foot of Nanda Dcvi, the highest mountain in the British Empire.' One of the members of the party will be Captain N. E. Odell, a member of the 1924 Everest expedition. He was the man who saw the lasi of Mallory and Irvine as they climbed to their death on the pinnacle! of Everest. •