INAL preparations are now being made in London, at Yeovil, ana'in India forthe Might, over' Mount. Tvereat by" the Houston Expedition. The party, led by Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes, with Lord Clydesdale as chief pilot, will leave Engian this month, The two aeroplanes will be flown from Karachi across northern India to the main base at Purnea, about 160 miles from Mount Everest.
The plans for the expedition have been subject to several months testing. The expedition is quite separate from that under the command of Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, which will attempt to climb the mountain, and it is due to Lady Houston, a generous patroness of British flying, that it has been made financially possible, In the following article Lord Peel describes for readers of the "North-China Herald" the origin and significance of this effort to fly over the frontier between two sworl examine the apex of the mountain which perhaps no living creature has yet seen, by ascent from the south, a route only accessible by wings, The southern face of Everest has the south, on the contrary, never been climbed and has rarely [there holds sway a whole genial imagination may forecast the ma-Jesty of that stu po Mount Everest's southern face, for no one but the airman will have seen it at close quarters as The world must await achievement itself and hope that. some pen will be forthcoming to) tell a hundredth part of the reality, A point directly summit is the Alr Commodore P. F. because there beyond the actual confines of the
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