17 APRIL 1953, Page 5

A Frightful Possibility If Everest is climbed this year by

Colonel John Hunt and his party, the summit is likely to be reached some time towards the end of May or at the beginning of June. It is, I understand. just possible that, if the feat were accomplished on the earliest possible date, the news of it would reach Printing House Square on the eve of Coronation Day. I can think of no contingency which would impose a more exacting test on editorial