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ASSAULT ON EVEREST
DUE SOON
From Our Special Representative
LONDON, May 14.
With only a week to go before
the first serious attack on Mount
Everest is due to begin, the British
expedition's programme is going ac
cording to schedule, according to latest
retiftrts reaching here.
The special correspon
dent of 'The Times'
with the expedition re
ports that no major
hitch has arisen so far in
the planned build-up of
supplies and camps in the
23,000-ft. high Western Cwm.
The leader of the expedi
tion (Col. John Hunt) is
thus succeeding in keeping
to his intention ? to have
everything in readiness in
the Cwm by May 15.
He hopes to take the first
opportunity that weather
may offer— between the dy
ing down of the north
westerly winds and the on
set of a monsoon from the
south— to launch his first at
tempt from the Cwm up the
Lhotse Glacier to put Camp
6 half way up the glacier
and Camp 7 on the 26,000
ft. South Col as essential
preliminaries to tackling the
critical final 3,000 feet.
In his dispatch the corre
spondent says:—
'I have just come down
from Mount Everest for aj
two-day spell. I
'Staggering' !
'Everest really is the |
most staggering affair— ,
photographs give abso- i
lutely no inkling of its size. 1
''I am in a filthy state like
everyone else. I badly need;
a clean shirt, my nails are
dirty and broken and my
beard has just reached the
stage of looking intentionaLj
'My old shoes are begin
ning to crack and my hair is
too long and needs a good
wash.
'The extraordinary thing
is that, despite it all, one
aeels perfectly well, with an
enormous appetite and ap
parent ability to go on
walking forever.
'Although I felt bad com
ing down the mountain, I felt
quite all right going up.
'The most unpleasant part
about it is the breathlessness
that overcomes one.
'One' pants at the slightest
exertion such as tying a shoe
lace.'
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