STRANDED ON ICE-PEAK
GERMAN CLIMBERS’ DREAD ORDEAL AGONIES OF LONG NIGHT DELHI, Monday. A night spent on an ice peak three and a-half miles high, with neither blankets nor sleeping-bags, was the harrowing experience of some of the members of the German Himalayan expedition. This expedition set. out in August to attempt to the third highest mountain in the world, 28,176 feet. It has just returned to Darjeeling. The climbers were isolated from their companions by an avalanche which buried their entire camp and outfit. They were consequently forced to spend a night in the open. Such agonies did the men endure that when morning dawned one was suffering from snow-blindness, and the remainder were badly frost-bitten. For several nights the climbers bivouacked on narrow ice ledges. Eight arduous days were spent in cutting a staircase up solid walls of ice, which had to be cut again during the descent. The Germans established a new altitude record on the Sikkim Himalaya of 24,450 feet.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 807, 30 October 1929, Page 9
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