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TWELVE MEN TO
ATTACK EVEREST
Chosen After A Rigorous
Test
H
STRONGEST PARTY OBTAINABLE"
(Special To The London Daily Telegraph)
London, Dec 17. "The Daily Telegraph" is able to state today the names of the 12 men who, with Mr. Hugh Rust- ledge, as their leader, will make the fifth attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest early next year.
qualities necessary to enable a man to do well an Mount Everest mountaineering experience and ability, endurance, capacity to ac climatise, equanimity and so on- are obvious essentials; but there
Mr. Ruttledge explains below that this party is the strongest that could be got together for the purpose of the twelve
Nine have already Mount Everest)
Ten are known to be capable of climbing to at least 23,000** and
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Eight are expected to be cap- able of going very high. "The party has been tumired to 12 to reduce the dimculties porterage on the glaciers and to almalify the problems of control.
EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES ALPINE AND MEDICAL
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nu complete test known science whereby the possession of all these faculties by an individual can be thoroughly tested before- hand.
“GREATER THAN "DEATH"
IF YOU LIVE TOO LONG: VIEW OF U.S. BIOLOGIST
No
Scientific Proof. Of Immortality
Envisioning the extension of re- juvenating processes during the next three centuries to the point science may determine where whether death is for ever to re- main a mystery. Dr. Alexis Carrel. the biologist, uttered a warning that the artificial postponement of death might be a greater cala- mity than death itself.
Discussing the "mystery of
New death" before the
York Academy of Medicine he said that
The problem of very high al-f the span of re were suddenly titude mountaineering is so dif- increased to 100 years civilisation ferent from those which arise in expeditions to lesser ranges and to the Polar regions that it re- quires a special kind of solution.
It will readily be understood that practical experience on the spot provides a better test than theory For this reason the Mount Ever
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could not bear the economic bur“. den of populations composed mostly of elderly individuals.
He said that the habits and in- stitutions of present civilisation predicated an order in which death helped to rid society of the
weak, "diseased and fools."
He refused to accept anything
est Committee sent out this yet developed as "sclentine proof
smail preliminary expedition of, the
soul, immortality of the under the leadership of Mr. E saying, "Hundreds of millions of Shipton, whose task was
believe people
in immortalitar. Such faith belongs to the domain wad of religion and pho ophy not to that
to try out the mountaineering abilities, and especially the acclimatising powers, of five men, all of whom had considerable Alpine exper- sclerice. ience.
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Girl's Unexpected Death
During Operation
Doctor Explains To Father At Inquest
London, Dec. 14. The death of a girl who had been healthy all her life," while under anaesthetic during an opera tion for removal of tonsils was in- "Spiritualists, claim that the sur-quired into by the Nottingham The result was most illuminat-vival of the soul has been demon- | Coroner. ing. Three men, were found to aç- strated. The mental activities climatise well; the other two, which we know as an aspect of
mountaineers though excellent
the living body naver manifest themselves after organic disinte- gration.
BY HUGH BUTTLEDGE. Leader of the Expedition The Mount Everest Committee has completed its task of selecting the party which la to attempt the as- and splendid companions in any cent of Mount Everest next year..enterprise, found themselves un- The members will be: Hugh Rutt- able to resist the lack of oxygen
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F. S. Smythe, who will be making
Not many young men just be- his fourth expedition to theginning their life's career are able to spend the whole season in the Himalaya.
B. Shiptou, u member of the Himalaya, especially if that is to second visit in be followed by a 1933 Expedition and famous for
The selectors his successful exploration last the following year. year, when he and Mr. Tilman were, therefore, obliged to content were the first to penetrate the themselves with a less elaborate glacier basin of Nanda experiment upon other candidates, great Devi, Like Mr. Smythe, he will who were taken to the Alps by Mr. be on his fourth Himalayan ex-F. S. Smythe during the summer pedition, and is probably the best and put through as rigorous a test acclimatised man in the party. as conditionis permitted.
P, Wyn Harris, Kenya Civil Ser- vice. He has a great climming
record and went to about 23,000
feet in 1933.
A THOROUGH OVERHAUL Finally, those candidates who
were considered to have come best
through the ordeal were subjected to a very thorough overhaul by that most competent and exacting body, the Central Medical Estab
E. G. H. Kempson, master at Marlborough College. He has had long experience of both summer and winter mountaineering in
lishment of the Royal Air Force, the Alps and was with Mr. Ship-for whose generous and conscient- ton this year in the Everest re-tous attention to cur problem we gion.
cannot be sufficiently grateful Dr. C. B. Warren, formerly of St. When all the reports were in it Bartholomew's Hospital. An- was my duty, as leader of next other mountaineer of great ex-year's expedition, to discuss each
candidate
Mr. with with Mr. individual perlence, who was Shipton this year.
Shipton and Mr. Smythe and with the officers of the Central Medi- cal Establishment, and to make recommendations to the Mount Everest Committee.
F. H. L. Wigram, medical student, St. Thomas's Hospital A mem- ber of Mr. Shipton's Darty this year, and has a long recurd in
After most careful and anxious the Alps. Lieut. J. M. L. Gavin, Royal En- consideration it was decided to gineers, Has never been to the limit next year's party to 12, of Himalaya, but did extremely well whom eight might reasonably be in Mr. Smythe's party in the expected to be capable of going Alpa this year... His medical re- very high. In 1933 the party num- purt was so good that there is bered 16. This was found to be every hope that he will do well somewhat unwieldy and to invel- considerable dificulties of on the mountain.
ving Lieut. P. R. Oliver; Bouth Waziris-porterage on the glaciers,
tan Scouts. First made a name by taking a amall expedition of his own to the Himalaya in 1933, when he made the second as- cent of Trisul, 23,408 feet. Has also considerable experience in the Alps and was with Mr. Smy- the this year. Major C. 3. Morris, late 2/3rd Gurkha Rides. Assistant 'trans-
experience that in deciding on the number of a party the paycholost cal factor must not be lost sight
NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF "There is no scientific proof st the present time of the survival after death of the mind or of part of the mind, but no one has the right to say that such survival is impossible."
The girl, Winifred Ethel Jacob Brown, otherwise Green, of Water way Street, Nottingham, died, it was stated, as a result of a clot of blood getting into the pulmonary ; viens, which caused instantaneous death.
Dr. Leonard Owen Taylor, who arried out a post-mortem, said. "That condition could not have been ascertained before-hand, and might have been formed duting the of quiet during the period
have On this fascitiating aspect of his naatsthetic. It might even subject, Dr. Carrel cited the poten- been there before: It would have occurred in any illness or et child. tial immortality of the cells. He birth, and would have caused referred to the growth of whole death." organs from dead animals by a system which Colonel Lindbergh which recently developed. maintains the circulation of arti- ficial blood.
and
Dr. Carrel himself has kept a chicken heart alive for 24 years at the Rockefeller Institute.
He spoke of resuscitation and rejuvenation, saying that, it re- surrected after too long a time,
man might return to life without
of a nine for
a soul He cited the case woman legally dead minutes, who, when resurrected. was paralysed and looked and acted Uke an animal
"Mental activities," he said, "generally disappear before the death of the body. These activi- ties which we know as an aspect of the living body, never manifest themselves after organic disinte- gration.
If the girl had not been operated upon she would have died. She was in danger of death due to the condition of her blood. The doctor said that his opinion was the anaesthetic had very little to do a. condition which could often with the forming of the clot. It was occur after illness,
HEALTHY ALL HER LIFE
The girl's mother, Mrs. Emma Green, said that her daughter, who
was a hosiery machinist, had been healthy all her life.
On December 5 witness received a notice about one o'clock to go to the hospital. She went, and about two o'clock was informed that her daughter was dead.
The girl had been admitted on December 4.
Dr. Stewart Quartermain Ser- vante, in evidence, described her as healthy.
On December 5 the operation was performed, a general anaesthetic consisting of 95 per cent, ether and s per cent, chloroform being given They afterwards awitched on to pure ether and oxygen.
The doctor said he examined the girl and formed the opinion that she was well able to undergo the operation.
During the operation she died. HAPPENED RAPIDLY "There was no indication that it was about to happen, it hap-
with Perod
extraordinary rapidity," he said. "Everything indicated that she was going ol satisfactorily, puise and colour be
tried, but was unsuccessful”. ing good, Artificial respiration was Mr. Green (the girl's father):' You tell us she was a healthy girl How is it that she died like that!
If she had not had the operation"
she would have been alive today. if there was any danger of death they should not have operated."
Dr. Taylor said that she might have died without the operation. Any illness would have brought about the risk of death because of A verdict was recorded that death the condition of the blood. was due to embolism in both pulmonary veins, causing heart failure during an operation for the annesthetic, remoral of tonsils while under the
She had tonsillitis after colds,
+ Britain's first exhibition of model and on the advice of her doctor abo underwent treatment until Novem soldiers was held recently at the ber 30. She was naked if she wanted Queen Victoria Memorial Soldiers to go into a bed in the City Home. Artillery Place, Woolwich. Infirmary, and she agreed, and she The show was arranged by the Bri was anxious to get it over before tish Society of Model Soldiers and the exhibits, numbering several Christmas,
thousands, were made and lent by the society's members. The model soldier is made of lead in the same SOUL SURVIVAL
size as the toy soldier. He is very uniform. his about particular that the "Spiritualists claim survival of the soul has been de
Every button, every stripe, every monstrated, and, that they "posses
badge must be right, for the society includes many Army officers and experimental proof of this pheno- menon. The importance of the
other experts. The exhibition in- facts on which such speculations latent life in dried cells, and cited cluded a selection of the British
of Alexander experiments are based cannot be denied but the
Army in pre-war full dress from grafted partly the collection of Mr. Walter Lock- the interpretation of the experi- Lipschutz, who mental restite seems incorrect. dried organs into guinea pigs and wood, the hon, secretary. Massed
the existence of clairvoyance.
Nevertheless, we know positively that clairvoyants are capable of
He
LATENT LIFE mentioned conditions
of
of. In very large expeditions the perceiving past and future events. human beings in a condition of view. Groups of realistic cowboys
dimeulties of control and of main- tenance of harmony increase ra- pidly with numbers.
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It was disclosed when Lt.-40.
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It has, moreover, been found 'be 1 Spiritualists neglect the fact of found that they revived and re- bands of ten regiments form one sumed their glandular secretion. of the most striking groups.. Toying with this idea, he su Models of present-day artillery, gested such possibilities as placing tanks and seroplanes are also on Therefore it is impossible to make suspended animation for a long and Indians provided a thrill for
very youthful visitors. a distinction between the survival periód; saying, "Although of the psychic principle and the remote, this is one of four posa- phenomenon of clairvoyance." bilities of postponing for long ..... ... STRONGEST. PARTY
the forces opposing periods of time the death of a few The Mount Everest Committee post officer on the Mount Ever is satisded that the party is the death, Dr. Carrel said, is the individuais. Some Individuals could R. V. K. Applin, former M.P., Hall- "search for the physiological fac be put into storage for longed from London for South Africa, est Expedition of 1922, and will arongest that could possibly be got tors that determine longevity." periods and brought back to nor that he was married in London be chief transport officer next together for the special purpose of
centenarians demonstrates that and permitted in this manner to Beatrice Rogers, a widow, who year. He knows the ropes, speaks climbing Mount Everest, having He explained that the existence of mal existence for other periods ten months ago to Mrs. Daisy been his housekeeper. Els and Tibetan regard to the particular experience our body possesses greater poten-ve for centuries. We should re- had Nepali perfectly well, and will devote himself and qualifications of each man. No
talities than we realise. There member that the utopias of to-day wife is accompanying him
South Africa The marriage took e exclusively to transport work. fewer than nine out of the 12 are probably, beside hereditary are the realities of to-morrow." Dr. Doel Humphreys, who
"Bince time, marked by the Place on February 28 and the best has have already been to Mount Ever qualities, certain modes of life, climbed in Switzerland and East est, and the psychological effect certain diets, and a certain mental clock, is recorded within all living man was Major Algernon Barnett. capable of promoting beings by irreversible changes," he Lt. Col. Applin was formerly M.P. Africa, and recently returned of this can hardly be over-estim- atitude after leading the expedition toated. Only two of the party have longevity. The study of these said, "the conquest of death is for Enfield. In May last year he Ellesmere Land. A man of pro- never been to the Himalaya. We conditions is still in its infancy, unthinkable. The average duration declared that he was going to give ved endurance, with exceptional know that 10 of the men are cap however, but it has already of life has already been increased up his Parliamentary career. "I experience of medical work in able of going to at least 23,000ft." brought to light some significant markedly, and it is quite probable must live in the open again.
that the maximum duration of shall leage for good sooty build- out-of-the-way parts of world.
and the leader have been forced to He cited fascinating experiments life also can be more or less con-ings, petrol fames and excessive income tax. I have in mind," he pure-bred mice at the siderably extended, The sharemarket opened dull buz Bosnian, and Russian rentes rose Lieut...W. R. Smith-Windham, Ro-reject the claims of many other. witta
Unforeseen discoveries may added, "a place where I shall es- Rockefeller Institute, which show ed, for instance, that diets which suddenly open new possibilities in cape from the telephone, the radio and the trade signals on a farm, in increased the stature and size of the field of rejuvenation.
tters and decreased the incidence night of man against death will Basutoland: 4,000 feet up in the or pneumonia did not promote perhaps succeed only too well, for Drakensburg Mountains." longevity while diets, which re the artincial postponement, os
Mr. Justice, Bennett, in the duced the stature and caused a death of a large number of ladi- high death rate during the first viduals would be a far greater Chancery: Division criticised a man month of life oddly enough in calamity than death itself, Death who described himself creased the apsn of life, all of is neither a calamity nor a bless amdavit aan. which prompted the suggestion ing, it is a necessity and Indis
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The Mount Everest Committee facts,
yal Corps of Bignals. One of the fine mountaineers for various rea- two wireless afficers who accom- sons, medical and otherwise: That panted the 1933 expedition. some disappointments should be Though not normally a moun caused was inevitable All that can taineer, he reached Camp. Iv, be said is that no effort has been on that occasion. He will be spared, without fear or favour, to charge of wireless com- put together the most able and munications next year...
homogeneous party that could be -QUALITIES REQUIRED found for the tremendous task
This is the fifth expedition to go that lies ahead,large out, and with each successive The "Dally Telegraph heathe sole rights of publication in this effort the difficulty of the selec tion of personnel has perhaps Country of news relating to the been more plainly realised. The Mount Everest Expedition 1
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that appropriate changes in diet pensable condition of life but not know and mode of lite might promote death is not an extraneous soci longevity in friser
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