16-Yrs-Old Explorers
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With 750 Others
16-Yrs-Old Explorers Return to School
TWO 16-years-old schoolboys who returned to Sydney by Qantas on Jan. 31, told reporters that during their seven weeks vacation near Mt. Hagen, NG, they had climbed a 9,500 ft mountain which no white person had climbed be fore.
One of the lads was Peter Blood, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Blood, well known residents of Mt. Hagen. The
other boy was his Christian Brothers’
College classmate, Peter Evans.
The mountain they climbed was Mt. Olga and they had been accom panied by Mr. Norman Camps. The boys said that they had gone also on an eight days patrol to the Jimmi River, 40 miles from Mt.
Hagen.
The boys were two of the 750-odd schoolchildren that Qantas expected to fly from P-NG back to school in Australian States in late Janu ary-early February—although pre sumably few of the other 750 in dulged in such strenuous holiday activity as these two embryo Patrol- Officers.