MOUNTAINEER LOST
A M EIRICAN ENG INEER. HIMALAYAN TRAGEDY. DELHI, June 14. Details have arrived of the death of an American explorer, while ascending Mount Ivunchinjunga. Edgar Farmer, an engineer in the employ of the Standard Oil Company of New York came to ’lndia on six months’ leave. He started on April 27tb. from Darjeeling with ten coolies and camp followers. The expedition was equipped with appliances for the supply of oxygen. 'lhe coolies state that Farmer, after establishing a fourth camp at a height of 22,0!X) Icet alone went higher with a small kodak to establish a fifth camp one sunny morning through snow waist deep, despite the coolies’ warning. He appears to have slept that night in a snow cave and was seen next morning climbing at about 25,000 feet, but lie was never seen again.
Tvuncliinjunga is one of tbe loftiest mountains of the Himalayan chain. Tt lias two peaks, tiff l west of which is 28,156 feet in height. Tt lies about seventy-five miles oast-south-east of Mount Everest. The mountain is extensively glaciated, one .of the largest of its glaciers being tbe Zemu.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1929, Page 7
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