MT. EVEREST
CLIMBERS’STORY
MIGHT HAVE BEEN CONOUEBED,
(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) , LONDON, August 21. Messrs .Longland and .Wynn Harris, the first of the Mount Everest climbers to reach London,(state that if Wager and Longland had, reached the rocks beneath the ;.cone ( iat 9.3oinstead of 12.30 p.m. there was- a, strong posisi'bilLy that Everest would 'have been conquered. A preoious three hours had- to be wasted in reconnaissance. • • . ■<.
‘The olimbei* all lost two' aton© in weight, but, though -we previously thought our appetites had disappeared \aibove twenty-three' thousand feet, thanks to scientific i,” acclimatisations, we found a large number of foods were definitely palatable'.”J ' 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1933, Page 5
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