RECORD CLIMB.
One Legged Mountaineer On Matterhorn. GREATEST FEAT IN HISTORY. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) GENEVA, July 27. Extraordinary nerve and splendid endurance were displayed, in an ascent of the Matterliorn l>y the distinguished Cambridge climber, Mr. Winthrop Young, who lost a leg during the war above the knee. He wears a metal pejr limb. He rode a mule to the hut 10,820 feet up. Without sleep he started at ten in the evening and reached.the summit at seven in the morning. He then descended to the hut in six hours. His most hazardous experience was in the moonlight on the six hours' mule descent from the hut to Zerniatt. Alpinists describe it as the greatest feat in the Matterhorn"s history.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 9
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121RECORD CLIMB. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 9
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