EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN.
EXPEDITION TO MOUNT EVEREST,
START OF THE EFFORT.
By Telegraph.—Pres® Asan—Copyright.
Received May 18, 8.5 p.m. London. May 17.
The Mount Everest expedition has been divided into three parties. One left on Friday, and the remainder go to-morrow to their base in. the Tengri Jong district, thirty miles north of Mount Everest. The Government supplied a hundred mules trained for work at high altitudes, and the bearers will be natives living on the lower slopes Mount Everest.
It is hoped to map thousands of square miles of unexplored country not known to Europeans, but the main work will be the discovery of a route to the top of Mount Everest. The climbers will carry high altitude oxygen bags and special arrangements will be made for the transport of food at great heights in small boxes, each containing food for two men for five days. These were specially made in London.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 5
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