TRAMPERS SAFE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 195, 31 May 1934, Page 3

TRAMPERS SAFE.

ACCIDENT CHANGES PLAN. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, May 30. The two members of the Canterbury College Tramping Club, Messrs James F. Lysaght and Brian Mason,, who had been overdue on a proposed journey to tlie West Coast by way of the Harman Pass, Whitehorn Pass and Browning Pass route, arrived unexpectedly at Glenthorne Station, near the junction of the Wilberforce and Rakaia rivers clcso to Lake Coleridge, at 2 p.m. today. They were overdue and changed their route down the Wilberforce river instead of up the river because of* a mishap to Mr Lysaght, who slipped when coming down into the Cronin Valley from the Whitehorn Ridge and crashed into some rocks, damaging a leg and an elbow. The accident compelled the climbers to spend a night in tho open. Mr Lysaght was unable to move, but he recovered sufficiently next day to get to the Park-Morpeth Hut at the junction of the Cronin and Wilberforce rivers, where they stayed while he nursed his injuries until yesterday. In the meantime search parties have Jeft the Bealey and also from the Hokitika end. They will doubtless find on reaching the Park-Morpeth hut that the students went down the Wilberforce.