ATTACK ON MT. EVEREST
ITALIANS PREPARING DIFFICULTIES WITH TIBET By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The Milan correspondent of “The Times says preparations for another attack on Mount Everest which have been in progress since the failure ot the last British expedition in 1924, have now almost been completed. Signor Belloni, president of the Alpine Club, has approached the Italian Government asking it to authorise a new expedition which be will finance. Italian alpinists say they believe the deaths of Mr. Mallory and Mr. Irvine on the last British expedition constitute no proof of the impracticability of scaling Mount Everest. They consider, however, that a more judicious placing of the base camps will be necessary. If the Tibet authorities persist in their recent attitude of not allowing white men to proceed up Everest owing to the Tibetan veneration for the peak, the Italian expedition will attack the Godwin-Austen peak, which is 28,250 feet high. Should they climb the latter they would beat Mallory’s record. —Times.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 1
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