Evening star., 1924-06-21
2 EVEREST CLIMBERS
KILLED NEAR SUMMIT
Worlds Highest Peak Still Uncon.
quered-Monsoon Believed
Cause of Deaths.
EFFORT BELIEVED DROPPED
Others of Party Reagrded Safe,
From Meager Advices.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, June 21.-Mount Everest,
the great irregular cone in the Hima-
layas. whose peak constitutes the
outermost point on the earths crust.
is still unconquered. The third ex-
pedition of intrepid climbers. like its
predecessors. has failed, two of the
explorers perishing in the final effort.
While the disaster occurred probably a
fortnight ago, the full details have not
come through. Brief dispatches re.
ceived by Sir Francis Yoanghusband
president of the Royal Geographical
Society. however, indicate that the
two victims. George Leigh Mallory
and A. c. Irvine. succumbed when the
climbers were caught by monsoon
Success Within Reach.
had won their way by hard struggles,
through weeks of terrible billiards.,
to a position which promised them a
chance of success. While the dis
patches did not definitely say the ex-
pedition was abandoned for this rea-
son. Sir Francis is of the opinion that
such Is the case.
Mallory, one of the victims. was
with his second Everest expedition
having engaged in the attempt OF
1922. but Ervine was a new member
of the party. Brig. Gen. c. G. Bruce
the original leader of the expedition
was forced to return to India from
Tibet in April by illness.
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sea level. The 1922 expedition was
still 5000 feet below the summit
when forced to abandon the attempt
Rest Of Pnrty Safe.
All England this morning was
pressing for further information from
the Inflated party, but the manner in
which the distinguished mountainer
Mallory, and Irvine, the young OK
oman, met their end had to be left
to speculation, pending the receipt OF
the messages which presumably are
on the way from the rest OF the ex-
pedition in the mountain Businesses
but have not yet been delivered at a
point where they can be put on the
cables. The public. however, CLEANED
some satisfaction from the fact tina,
the advices from India reported the
rest of the party safe.
A member of the Alpine Club. who
is fully conversant with all the de.
tails connected with the arrange.
ments for the expedition, expressed
the opinion today from his knowl.
was a great possibility that Mallory
and Ervine had encountered an ava
lanche. He cited the fact that in the
1922 expedition Mallory, working
without oxygen, reached a point be-
low the projecting nose" of the
other climber, made detour around
the nose and reached a point con.
siderably higher than that obtained
by Mallory.
Followed Detour Route.
The particulars at hand appeared
to indicate, said the Alpinist, that the
party again followed the route OF
Finch's detour. where they might
easily have encountered an avalanche
as the confguration of Everest al
this point renders the danger from
avalanches especially threatening. HI
merry and the whole of his party were
killed by an avalanche on Mango
Parbat in this region. Apart from the
threat of avalanches, he noted, thi.
was the monsoon season and these
storms were a source of great danger
Mallory, widely known mountain.
eer, was about thirty-nine years old
was married and had two children.
Irvine, one of the new members OF
the expedition, was student at Mer.
ton College, Oxford, and a member
of the 1928 crew stroked by the
American w. p. Mellen. Last year hi
was a member of the Oxford expedi.
tion to Spitxbergen.
The present is the third expedition
which has failed to reach the sum
nit of Mount Everest, the hiehes,
peak in the world, 29,002 feet aboy,
the sea level. Everest is in the Hima.
laylas, on the borders of Nehal anG
Tibet.
Six Veterans In Party.
On March q last a party of thir.
teen men started out from Darjmel
ing, British India, for the conques
of the peak. OF the party six mer
were veterans of the 1922 attempt
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