Last year, 75 years after a British climber, George Mallory, disappeared, similar numbers had already started out when Mallory's body was discovered close to the summit, his right legbroken in two places but the flesh miraculously preserved in the cold, dry air.
Wenger also revealed that midfielder Aaron Ramsey was showing good progress in his recovery from a double brokenleg suffered in a tackle with Stoke's Ryan Shawcross.