TRAPPED ON PEAK FACE
During a series of violent storms which raged across Switzerland last rnonth, wreaking widespread havoc, a young Lausanne climber hurtled to death dc.rn a 2000 ft. precipice. •The tragedy is described in a rtessage from Les Plans sur Bex, in the Rhone relating how Georges Eperon, the student son of a well-known Lausanne surgeon left Les Plans alone on a rock-climbing expedition to the dangerous "Argentine" Peak. The next day guides discovered his mangled body at foot. He had apparently fallen while trying tho descent of the almost Perpendicular cliff by means of a rope Hung over projecting rocks. When a short distance down ho must have found himself trapped, unable to ascend or descend, and to have spent many hours in this terrifying position until, numbed with cold and exhaustion, he crashed oa to tho rocks below.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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