DIFFICULTY OF EVEREST.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1922, Page 5

DIFFICULTY OF EVEREST.

“MOUNTAIN CAN BE CLIMBED.” YOUNGER MEN WANTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 18, 11.55 p.m. London, July 17. After interviewing Messrs. Strutt, Longstaff and Finch, the Everest Committee issued a statement declaring that the expedition’s official narratives erred considerably on the side of modesty. The mountain proved far more formidable than wf.u believed. For example, the temperature at camp No. three touched 61 degrees of frost and the warmest night was one degree above zero Fahrenheit. All the members of the expedition suffered severely from the effects of altitude and the cold, trying winds. Morshead will lose the last joints of three fingers. The three men interviewed consider young men are required for climbing really high altitudes with experience of snow conditions. The arrangements were excellent, including food, equipment and other supplies. Tl&y consider Everest can be climbed but hi conditions must be perfect, with four fine days, whereas the expedition had only two. The members of the expedition should be under thirty years of age. Steep rock climbing is necessary up the final ridge and probably considerable step-cutting above 28,000 feet —Times Service.