CLIMBING KAMET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 8

CLIMBING KAMET.

BRITISH SOLDIERS’ PLAN. Five soldiers of the East Surrey Regiment, Corporals R. Rid ley, J. AVilliams, H. Hamilton, J.Bull and Private S. F. Hill, will attempt an ascent of Mount Kamet, in the Twenty-one porters will be employed as far as the base camp, but beyond that only eight will be used. these will proceed only to the second camp at the head of East Kamet glacier at 10,000 feet. The plan is to move by a succession of camps to 20,000 and 23,000 feet, from where an attack on the summit will be made. Their route will be that followed by Mr F. S. Smythe’s party, who ascended Mount Kamet in 1931. Judge Jameson, at the Darjeeling Sessions, set aside the conviction and sentence of one year’s imprisonment imposed on Ran Prasad Rai, postmaster at Gangtok, for misappropriating several letters of the 1936 Mount Everset expendition. The appeal was heard under orders from the Government. Judge Jameson remarked that the Residency Magistrate is convicting the appellant had observed: “Secreting other people’s letters is morally reprehensible. The accused’s act must hnve caused worry and anxiety and deserves no sympathy.” The Court was not a court of morals, but of law, said Judge Jameson. In the absence of any evidence from the Mount Everset expeedition party, he ha<l to hold that the prosecution had failed to prove that there was more than suspicion.