Letter: Pressure of tourism on mountaineering

Friday 17 May 1996 23:02 BST

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Pressure of tourism on mountaineering

Sir: Is it not a little late in the day to sacrifice one's life on Everest? All one's grandchildren could say is "grandfather lost his life climbing Everest shortly before the chair-lift was installed! Don't say it is impossible.

I am 90 years old and the things called "impossible" when I was young would need the fingers of both hands to be counted on.

The Edwardian mountaineers faced the same problem with the railway up Snowdon.

Marjorie Crossley

Cambridge

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