Everest Expedition
ENORMOUS DIFFICULTIES AT START.
'Received This Bay at 12.20 p.m ' LONDON, Junq 14. One of the members of the party describes the difficulties of the Everest expedition. A plague of leeches fastened on the mules causing a deep trail of blood along the route. Tho trek to Sikkim, Tribel, resolved itself into up and down scrambles of precipitioua cliffs, three thousand feet high. Many mules were knocked up and abandoned to the vultures. There was a terrible break-down of transport at the very beginning of the expedition, until it secured local mules, which were wonderfullV qdept in climbing the slippery stone causeways. He describes a wonderful zone of rhododendrons stretching for miles, and covering the hillsides in* a blaze of colour of all imaginable hues.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1921, Page 3
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127Everest Expedition Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1921, Page 3
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