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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29,

One day 'Hillary went up lo how George Lowe his routo across the "Atom Bomb Area Lowo was in the lead as they approached one of the crevasses with a thin mow bridge over the top.

"You didn't cross this bridge, did you, Ed?" he called back. Hillary said yes.

boll, were supremaly "ût (and

fast 'climbers; nodi, more "t-

portant, thoir. chameters were complementary. Tenzing" quiet, willing, amiable - Hillary, the extrovert of the expedition, friendly, without reserve,

Onco, Tunzing saved Hillary's life. And all because of "a foolish boset to George Lown. (These two, somehow, seemed inted to get each other into trouble). Hillary and Tenzing were on their way down to Boat Camp at the foot of the fee- fall. At Camp Two, which was perched on the edge of the gincler, they met George Lowe and stayed for a few minutes to owap stories

It was just after four o'clock. At five d'éloek Lowe was due to make one of the regular checks with Base on the radio link.

1'11 Say Hollo

..

"I'll say hollo to you when I get down," said Hillary.

"That'll be the day," nnswer- ed Lowe, who knew that nobody had done the distance between Camp Two and Base inside an hour,

CHAPTER FOUR Sherpa Tenzing, and noted

quiet alr of confidence and charming smile. TXTHEN Hillary and Lowe

Georgo Lowe had come with arrived home in New

Hillary set off at a trot, drag- Hillary to make up the Now Zealand they found letters

ging Tenzing behind. They ren Zealand contingent For the

through **Atom Bomb Area" from Shipton telling them rest there was Evans, Bour- the 1953 expedition was al- dillon, Gregory, Ward Wylic,

and came to the last crevasse. cross by the rendy under way. So that Noyce, Bard and Westmacott,

Not pausing to bridge Hillary took a flying leap Most of them he already knew. new year The

in the air and innded with full waiting for the

others came with fine was quite an ordeal for climbing reputations to

Lowe wasn't convinced, and force on the overhanging tip of Hillary, made worse by the them,

gave the bridge a jab with his the erovasse.

Tho Up Ice uxe before trusting his It was too much. fact that the Swiss had re-

slowly weight to It. The bridge They started off

dis- collapsed and fell, Hillary with turned to Everest that climbing steadily for seventeen appeared from sight, just like it. Frantically he tried to dist

for

second days through autumn,

the foothills, that, and the whole area shook his feet against the wall of the minor assaulting some attempt:

moun with an earthquake-like tremor, crevasse, and as he did so the get n

rope came tight round his waist. tains to keep it and

whit- climatised, exploring

They were spill into ng. Hillary had the job of recon- groups and given separate tasks;

enemy, the noitering hu old Khumbu icefall.

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He scanned the papers daily, almost afraid of what he would find. One report said they had made camp 120 feet from the summit, Certainly everything time. was in their favour this They had learned from their mistakes in the spring, their team was fresh, the weather as good as they could expect.

But

eventually the troth emerged. The Swiss had been beaten once Again, Ilary

breathed free.

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Conditions were worse

Lowe, Band and Westmacott went with him. From the moment they set up camp at the

foot of the leefall Hilary knew

More rews came from Enk- he was going to have his work land. Disturbing news of a cut out. Conditions had des quarrel between Shipton and the teriorated since he

was last Royal Geographical Society, It here, but painfully they forced transpired that Shipton was no a track upwards. Through longer going to lead the ex- overhanging lee, their senips Fedition; that honour fell to a tingling heross crevasses where Colonel John Hunt,

they had to trust their weight to slender bridges of snow. along steep banks of ice which threatened to avalanche bo neath them. Between their first and second day's climb, a huge full of ice blocked out half their track. Hlary tried not to ponder on what would have happened if he had been around at the time it happened.

Everest Without Shipton

Hillary's first reaction was sappointment combined with without Eycreat annoyance. Slapton wouldn't be the same. Who was the fellow Hunt, any way? Hunt wrote him a letter, in friendly terms, saying: "I am locking forward immensely ta He drew a plan of their route getting to grips with this prob- up the leefall, and a few of the lem with you.” They met for names from it give some Iden the Arst time when the expedl- of the terrors it held. From tlon pssembled ut Katmandu, "Westmacolt's Horror" to "Il- and Hillary was at once tuken lory's Horror" and "Hell Fire with Hunte vivid personality, Alley." Thence to "Atom Bomb from the Arca". "Jump Crevasse",

Crevasse", and so he "Ghastly

"Nut- too, Hillary met cracker” and so on.

"I intend to lead front," said Hunt, did. There,

"I could feel Gearge's accusing Tenzing, in that moment, had eyes on me," suld Hillary, "so I pulled up and dug his heels in.

something Heavy - Iranded shoves

about if he hadn't, they both might mutterect

that have gone tumbling down. would knock the Sydney Bridge Hillary cut his way to, the over and started to look for surface and thanked Tenzing

for his action. another place to get across."

The Sherpa Once at the top of the icefall seemed think it was rather a the glacier lay spread out before good joke, especially when they in time for them, neat and uncomplicated. orrived at max Hunt and the others came up Hilary 10 Bay a breathless

with Hillary, the hazards of the

irefall were roped end marked,

Sherpa and

porters were brought up to establish camp.

without

heart- some NOL

the part of searchings on Colonel Hunt. It was bill very well letting members of the ex- pedition risk their necks on the icefall-but inden Sherpa

Was

Well, it was another matter, either bring, thom up or call off the whole trip, and Hunt made the only decision he could in the circumstances.

tho

All along the way they come across reminders of the Swiss party. The fifteen-foot crevasse at the entrance to the Khumbu glacier which had held up Swiss for days whe tyredged with an aluminium ladder. Hillary

accorded the was honour of being first peross; and in the cold gilp of fear he trusled his weight to the slender and swaying piece metal,

1

of

About this time Hillary start.. ed elimbing with Tenzing. They were well suited to one another; |

"Hello" to George Lowe.

POCKET CARTOON by OSHERT LANCASTER

"Oh, don't say we're going to have to go through it all over again in Swedish!"

1957

Mr. Dulles has now taken up a position of cautious optimism regarding disarmament:

Mashington Report.

Friell

BRINKMANSHIP

PEACEFUL CO-EXISTEN

THE SUPREME DETERRENT

Will it deter?

U.B. MISSILE Test Centre, CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida.

W terrent

can

TILL the Supreme De- deter? The Supreme Deterrent is Atlas, the giant rocket with the hydrogen bomb warhead, which

travel 16,000 m.p.h. 600 miles high and demolish its target 5,000 miles away.

The Supreme Deterrent is also the Atlas family, the inter-203- imental ballistic missiles, the Intermediary cos, end the Jualor ones a long list of more thra 30 rockets carrying death and devaslátlan in their nose.

By DON IDDON

I.C.B.M. the last word or the complete initials of America's defence programme. It is not.

For several years the long- range bomber carrying hydro- gen and atom bomba is the front Tine force, the shock troops.

Cepariert in

all countries

London Express Service

was

being developed. This treated with great scepticisin.

The attitudo is: "There's 130.. harm

thero's.. In trying but nothing even la" vague outline on the board that could halt Atins."

It is signifernt that the United States is spending more and more thousands of millioris on missiles

and less and less on conventional weapons.

The trend is to the ballislie missile, to the rocket, and, above all else, to the intercon- timental ballistic missile. Build- ing them has become a nation- wide project.

HER DECISION

The best brains of American gudustry have been mobilised behind the 1.C.B.M. programme, j and the Government aro bock- Ing them with billions of dollars. The United States today hus· We are entering slowly, perhaps are developing the weapon most a huge stockpile of hydrogen reluctantly, into the Missile Age, ilkely never to be used."

crd atom bombs and it has an But there is no funding back. Ho believes, and the scientists enormous fleet of long-range believe, that this family of bombers capable of delivering ultimate weapons will keep the bombs against Russia or any global conflict. the peace, will deter Russia from memy.

Is my

belief also after storehouse spending days here in Cocoa Village rocket town.

Everything appears normal in this haven

under the

sun and by the sea. Shriever says: “We Salend to keep it that way. Patrick Base is a shield,"

It should be stated

named. However, that

and certainly rellence, total rellanco on Atlas America's armament 13 years away.

$1

THE face of Amorlen is being. The U.S.S.R, has also a great chuiged by this new ki-

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hydrogen

and dustry and 110w armament.. atom bombs and the aeroplace Britain made her decision months to deliver them against fangets ago, and it is the right one la in this county and Europe. the opinion of the 'scientists and....

the missile-men here. We have put our trust In Atlas, ro awe- soma weapon most appropriately. Atlas carries the world and the future on its shoulders,

Thus there is a stalemate, So the duel now-and it will extend over many years-is 10 develop more and moro Atlases, more and more super-hydrogen headed rockets.

MY BELIEF THE belief here at Patrick Alr- base, the missile test ceNTE, is that

end General Shriever his men have now lined up the power and the vehicles to de- liver it to prevent war. Shriever says over and over again: "We not given the impression that mph. eatl-missile rocket

I hope in this series

some

I have

Incidentally, there has becn dispatch from Washington since I came here that said a 15,000-

TOMORROW and FRIDAY Don Iddon describes his visit WAS to Patrick Base, Florida.

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