AT KINCHINJUNGA
PREPARING FOR THE CLIMB
[United Press Association.—fly,Electric Telegraph—Copyright]. LONDON, l\fay 14. iMessagos from, the ' Kin.ehinjuuga base camp state the party"are enjoying the last of four days holiday which Dyrenfiirth ordered for the purpose of overcoming the fatigues of the journey. Preparations for the attack on Einchinjunga are completed, even to Richter’s drawing of two hundred cubic centimeters of- blood from some of the climl>ersy. to , prevent insidupus altitude effects, after which they will swallow pills ■, to regain the lost blood. DyrejifiU’th decided that the only practicable route to the summit is up the northern ridge. TE©' 'to ''establish camp No -3 at an altitude of twentyfour thousand feet, probably in a bole of ico cut out of a glaciei at the end of the first terrace leading to the ridge, with an ice staircase and hand ropes after which there will be two more camps, the. last a thousand feet below the summit. If it is possible to reach the final terraeo and establish this camp, it is practically certain, that given good weather, the summit can he gained.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1930, Page 3
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