Talk:1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition

Article name
This probably should be renamed to 1952 Swiss Mount Everest Expedition to follow the naming conventions used for 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition. There is a complication for this article because there were two Swiss expeditions in 1952; in the spring and fall (northern hemisphere). I suggest that both be put into the one article although perhaps the article title should be ... Expeditions in that case. RedWolf (talk) 08:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * Archive URL added. RedWolf (talk) 18:05, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Surely there were 2 Swiss expeditions in 1952, in spring and autumn, with both of them Tenzing and Lambert got high up. PatGallacher (talk) 01:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

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Bad wikilinks
Whenever a wikilink turns RED, as in 1956_Swiss_Everest%E2%80%93Lhotse_expedition, this means that something has gone seriously wrong, and this is unacceptable. It must be corrected. This means that there is either a typographical error in the link, or the article does not exist at all. There is no purpose in allowing red wikilinks to exist, and they should be eliminated. 24.156.78.205 (talk) 18:27, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * What you're saying is contrary to accepted practice on Wikipedia. Redlinks should be rare, but they may legitimately exist in certain circumstances, such as when a clearly notable topic has no article or a new article is pending. The guideline is here, if you'd like to read it. Incidentally, I left a note on your talk page, but please stop "correcting" other users' comments on talk pages. I have reverted you here and elsewhere because you've been doing that. Edit articles; leave existing talk-page comments alone. Rivertorch FIREWATER  20:03, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Dubious claim
I just noticed the unsourced claim, flagged as "dubious" in Nov 2018, that "The team never even considered an attempt at an ascent of Everest", after someone added similar words to the South Col article. This unreferenced claim flies in the face of the description of Lambert and Tenzing trying to reach the summit, as well as Edmund Hillary's account of the Swiss Expedition when he talks about meeting them at their base camp and how disappointed they were at having failed to reach the summit. Furthermore, the South Col is part of Mount Everest, as is the Southeast ridge that they went up, so it makes no sense to say they weren't ascending Everest. So I am removing the sentence from this and the related articles Edouard Wyss-Dunant and South Col. Samatarou (talk) 01:31, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Autumn expedition?
The last section of this article mentions an Autumn expedition, but I don't think there was one. I think the editor who added this section was confusing the failed push by the second team who were going to attempt a summit, but after 4 days on the south col of bad weather called it quits. This section mentions that this autumn expedition had some of the same members of the first, which seems highly unlikely after 2 months these men would return. Thoughts? StarHOG (Talk) 13:34, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

No, there definitely was an autumn expedition, see "Tiger of the Snows" by Ullman and Tenzing for an account of it. PatGallacher (talk) 17:03, 29 May 2019 (UTC)