TOLL OF EVEREST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2749, 24 June 1924, Page 2

TOLL OF EVEREST.

- *-♦ EXPEDITION MEETS WITH DISASTER. Delhi, June 20. Disaster overcame members of the Everest Expedition, Mr George Leigh-Mallory and Mr A. C. Irvine being killed, the remainder of the party are safe. PREMONITION OF FATE.

THIRD TIME THE LAST

London, June 21. The “Daily Chronicle” recalls that Mallory in 1922 with Dr Somerwell and Major Norton, broke the world’s record by climbing to a I,eight of 20,800 feet. He was with Colonel Howard Barry on a reconnaissance expedition in 1921. Mallory narrowly escaped death during Bruce’s second expedition in 1921. He and others were overwhelmed by an avalanche, seven perishing. When a senior boy at Winchester, he was taken for an alpine trip. Irvine was one of the six recruits to the latent expedition. He accompanied Odell in the Merton expedition to Spitsbergen last year, when he was a member of" the sledge party who made the new traverse. He rowed for Oxford in the University boat race in 1920. The “Times” in editorially regretting the deaths of Mallory and Irvine, recalls Mallory’s recent comment “The third time we walk the Rongbuk glacier will be the last, for better or for worse,” thus revealing a prophetic instinct of what the future held in store.