"Boxing" Marquis of Clydesdale to Pilot Altitude Expedition Himalayan travellers have exper! heed. those fits of senacteas Tras elbilty that sometimes begin as Tow 15000 ft." The trouble Is. pro-greater heights encrey {and ver are undermined while Int, Everest ightcexpedition, led by Air-Commander Fellowes with the Marguis of Clydesdale us chief Pilot, wil leave for india next month End" the attempt world's highest mount nade in March. Their main has Will beat Barnes. about 160) miles From Int. Everest. "The flight" wu be undertaken. by two aeroplanes, each carrying a pilot and observer: These will be equipped with oxygen contained in cylinders made of spe ial and extremely. strong" steel, Which "was recently produced by Messrs. Vickers Armstrong.
The whole part will number 42 of 14 persons and will include AirsCommander Fellowes, who will charge as technical expert, and Colonel Therton, The attempt will probably be made the first week in March.
'The' attempt will be made. inde-pentenely of any other expedition he. Marquis has had considerable ing experience and is well equipped to make such a trip. He decided make the attempt last September, Which time he was touring. the western highlands ina, seaplane.
The Marquis of Clydesdale, wel known a8 the "boxing. Matauis owing to, his handiness. with gloves, {e'iHe eldest ton of the Duke of Hernilton The organisers of the projected fight have arranged for the. pur-chao of two Westland aeroplanes, one of the P.V.3 type and the other These, aircraft belong to the ewapiti", "General Purpose. series, and the P.V.6 1s a type adapted for the Royal Air Force." For the Ever~ fest expedition, each is to, be fitted with "a. Bristol. "Po which, supercharged, nea height of 11,000. Zee. this engine the aircraft will have a ceiling of about 38.000 fect. Mount Bversst is 29,002 feet, The nearest aerodrome from which the flights to Mount Everest can be made it the RAP, aerodrome at Purnea, which is about 160 miles south of the peak. The intervening country i8 quite impossible for lan ing purposes, being one vast: area Flights from Purnea will be made
nreetearily mean a mileage of more round the mountain, and there will Than 320 miles. On account of the high winds common to this, region the aircraft will need a fuel duration of at least four hours.
The Marquis of Clydesdale will be the chief pilot. "The equipment will include the most up-to-date photo: graphic apparatus for the taking of Einematograph films, and the pictorial records of flights over Nepal and Tibet and the great mountain Itself will be intensely interesting.
Financial support of the under~ taking, provided by Lady Houston, amounted to £15,000, Int. Everest has exacted a terrible toll of casualties from previous expeditions, but as the result of three arduous campaigns the one and only way up has been thoroughly ex. plored, so that little more than 800 ft, of it remains, unclimbed.
The most for the victim struggles on ina sort \of waking nightmare. slue and" yet indifferent; he may Guarrel fufloasly about trifles SPA somme time feel too lethargic to take the ordinary essential pre-Chutlons "of mountaineering; "his Glimbing becomes careless anda sip ipveoly made. in tin patoer plight the climbing party wil have grapple with the most. arduous probleme "of mountaineering and Gan oxygen banish these troubles?
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