LOST LAND RE-FOUND
% — - Untrodden by Man for 12,000 Years
SCIENTISTS' EXPEDITION
GRAND CANYON (Arizona), September 16. A signal fire at the top of Sbiva Temple, which is a plateau rising to 4,500 fieet, and untrodden by man for at least 12,000 years, announced that nine scientists and five porters had conquered a "lost world." The expedition, roped together, perilously. groped its way for many hours up a perpendieular sandstone cliff 350 feet high. Only essenlial supplies were taken, these includiiig traps, in which it was hoped to ensnare animals unknown to modern science. The expedition also carried instruments for the study of surviving forms of ice-age vegetation. Food will be parachuted from aeroplanes.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 5
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