EVEREST TO BE CONQUERED FROM AIR.
CAPTAIN NOEL’S NEW IDEA
New York, October 12.
To conquer Mount Everest by air-plane is the plan of Captain John Noel, of the Royal Geographical Society, London. “A man can he lowered,” he says, by a rope from a plane flying six miles) high. I am willing to he that man.”
Captain Noel says that food supplies will first bo dropped; then the adventurer will be lowered, and, using liquid oxygen, he would Avalk doAvn the mountain.
Two of Captain Noel’s men, in the last attempt to climb Mount Everest, reached Avithin six hundred feet of the summit, Avhen they were lost.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3704, 15 October 1927, Page 3
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108EVEREST TO BE CONQUERED FROM AIR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3704, 15 October 1927, Page 3
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