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Expedition rumored, but unconfirmed.

Six climbers disappeared at C8.


Evgeny Tamm - 2 Dec 81

Mr Tamm, a 54-year-old physics researcher and experienced mountaineer living in Moscow, said through an interpreter that reports circulated in the west over the past decades that an unsuccessful Soviet attempt had been made on Everest from the Chinese side in 1952 were entirely wrong, and he appealed to the who attended his press conference (on the upcoming Soviet 1982 expedition) to correct what term "this disinformation."

These reports, which he asserted had no foundation in fact whatsoever, had said that a very large Russian team led by Pawel Datshnolian had managed to send climber to an altitude of at least 8200m late in the autumn of 1952 on this 8848m giant mountain and then the leader and five others disappeared never to be seen again.

Mr. Tamm said he did not want to guess who was responsible for these completely false reports. He said that no one in Soviet mountaineering had ever heard of a climber name Datschnolian.