MOUNT EVEREST
BASE CAMP ESTABLISHED GOOD WEATHER EXPERIENCED „ t Official Wireless) Received May 17. 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY. May 16 Tile Times, in a copyright message, j announces that after arrival on April 6. the Mount Everest expedition cs- | lablished a base camp at a height of 1 OOi) feet on the snout of the East j Minebuk glacier. Stores have been relayed up the i trlacier to camps two and three, which j have been established and stocked. ' Thirty Sherpas have been selected f 0 remain with the party during the assault. The weather is good and • sunny and not unbearably cold. The party are suffering from the coughs and colds inseparable from the i high Himalayan altitudes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20500, 17 May 1938, Page 7
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118MOUNT EVEREST Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20500, 17 May 1938, Page 7
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