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HEAVY SNOWFALL CAUSES WITHDRAWAL
CALCUTTA, June leth. Writing from the East Ronghok L'acier ou May 28th. Colenel Norton reports a further setback owing to intense cold and heavy snowfall On the night of May Band
and 23rd the lowest temperature on record in any Everest expedition was e perienced, viz. 30 degrees of trust. For dive days in camp there the temperature averaged 20-degrees of frost pressitating withdrawal to camp No. 1 for vegapera.
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was very sick. Then followed a race with darkness which was won by the rescuers and the rescued in the nick of time.
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EPIU STORY OË HEROISM.
A special" cable from Calcarta. dated June 27th, to the Times of Cegion states; An epic story of British pluck and en durance, which achieved a record moun taineering feat, but calminated in a ter- rible tragelly and an unknown grave for two gallant elimbers, is told in the last despatch from the Everest expeditión received yesterday in Calcutta.
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3LU, the temporary leader of the expedi-" „tion, concludes his story in the following words: Mallery aml Tevine perished on the mountain, beyond all Qouba." They were last seen by Odeli from Camp VI. going strong for the top. I have not yet seen Odell, but estimate that at about
11 o'clock on the morning of the sth the point reached at that time by the climbers was about 2,000 fret. - Kuthing has, been seen or heard of them since, ' Odril re- turned to enmp that night and until almutoon on the 9th, the absence of news occasioned only auxiety, as the clim hers might have passed the hight in camps V. or VI. At noon on the stb, Odell am two portees started from camp VI. and spent the night at eaip Y. * About TŢm.,|| on the 10th Odell reached camp Y.,
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The only likely explanation of the tragedy is a mountaineering accident un-- connected with questions of 'weather gr the use of oxygen. This is horne out hy our own observationis, four days provious. ly, of the nature of the ground they were ernssing, when they were inxt seen, 1 remained at camp-11, directing opera- tions by messenger and sigdal and watch ing through a telescope until 5.30, in the afternoon of the Fith, lạ whigh, tine :i saw Odell reach camp ¿V, safely. By condition and that of Captain Brion, the Lonly elüniver with one, precluded, núr reaching camp IV in time to be of any help and, beyond a letter of instructions and the use of a system of sighals," I had to give the supporting party, in camp LY a-free hand. They appear to have, done alt that was, humanly possible. I should "wild that I myself formule, any recogňajš. sance beyond camp YI, the weather, was extremely threatening and conditions on the mountain" appeared to be' as hqd as they could;;ho." „I had to consider the lives of two British and thrue-Himalayan members of the expedition still at or „above camji IV.
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