EVEREST CLIMBERS
HELD UP BY BAD WEATHER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright.) (Received this day at 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 21. Ruttledge, in a wireless message from Mt. says that the climbing party re~&sembled at Camp Three on June 16, but taA examination of the north col slopes showed them to be deep in snow. It was apparent that an improvement in weather as fallacious a s the snow in the evening replaced the effects of the morning’s sun. ; A careful report from the metoro'ogical office in Calcutta -indicates that there is little- hope of improvement before rhe middle of September. “We must return to the base camp for the present, as -avalanches are pouring off IMt. Everest, and the mountain cannot be approached for many daje.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1933, Page 6
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