U.S. ENGINEER KILLED
ON MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING EXPEDITION. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) DELHI, June 14. Details have arrived of the death of ItTi American explorer while ascending Kinchiiijunga. Edgar EarinCr, at) engineer in the employ ol the Standard*Oil Company, New York, cuiml to India on six months’. leave. He started on April 27th from Darjeeling with ten coolies and camp followers. The expedition was equipped with appliances for the supply of oxygen.
The coolies state that Farmer, after establishing four camps at a height of twenty-two thousand feet, alone went higher with a small Kodak .to i establish a fifth camp. It was a sunny morning, and though waist deep in snow, and despite the coolies’ warning he appears to have slept that night in a snow cave, and was seen again next morning climbing about twenty-five thousand feet, hut never again.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1929, Page 5
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