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AVALANCHE KILLS CLIMBERS Nanga-Parbat Expedition Overwhelmed DR. WJEIN ESCAPES
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(Received 21, 11.0 a.m.) SXMM, jRne 20. An av&lanehe overwhelmed tho German Nanga Parbat expedition, killing seven of the climbers ahd nine Gurkha porters. The lestder. Pr. Kar! Weih, escapedBy a cpincidence the Volkxsckerf Beobachter publisfies an article, dut?d May 20, by Herr Ffeftei', * member of the expedition, announeiBg that they had reached the main camp on the snowliiie at an altitude ef 10,900 feet and were hoping to launch an attack on the summit withlu » | montfi, He adde that Professpr Cof Berlin University, "wfcom science led qlsewfiere," quitted the e^qdition ' on May 17 j | Nanga Parbat, one of the world ?f higfiest peak.s, is in the Western Himalayape Itp summit is 26,650 fecit jtxigh, 1200 feet fiigher than Kamel, the loftiost peak yet clxmbed by man* The prepent expedition has been making s ■ preparations for the ascent of the sum^ xnit since April. It copsists of nine men ' under Dr. Karl Wien. In the last attempt to ciimb Nanp Parbat in 1934 the leader of the expedition, Herr Willi Merkl, with two white companions and six faithful porters, perished in a blizzard when in sight'— and possibly within reaeh — of victory.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 7
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