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FOR MOUNTAINEERS. United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright) DELHI, October 28. A night spent on an ice pack three and a half miles high, with neither blankets nor sleeping bags, was the barrowing experience of a German Him if lay an expedition which set out m August in an attempt to conquer Kanchanjunga, the third highest mountain in tlie world. The expedition has just returned to Darjeeling. Isolated from their companions by an avalanche, which buried the entire camp outfit, a small party of the climbers was forced to spend the flight in the open, and they were in such agonies that, when morning dawned, on'e man was snowblind, and the. remainder were badlv frost bitten. For several nighfs the. cl nu her s bivouacked on narrow ice ledges. Eight arduous days were spent in cutting a staircase up solid walls rtf ice, and which had to be re-cut during the 1 descent. The Germans established a new altitude record at Sikkim, Himalaya, of 24,450 feet. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1929, Page 5
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