SKI-IER KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 7

SKI-IER KILLED.

Brilliant Englishman's Death

In Canada.

FOOT STARTS AVALANCHE.

CALGARY, April 10.

Mr. R. E. C. Paley, aged 25; an international research Fellow, and generally regarded as one of England's leading mathematicians, was killed at Lake Louise while ski-ing. The body wae recovered after an hour's digging in crumbled roek and snow.

Mr. Paley was climbing on skis to a perilous ledge on Fossil Mountain, and when a few hundred feet from the 9600 ft peak, he fell into the valley below, as one of his skis scraped light rock and started an avalanche. He took the dangerous ascent alone and later some of his friends set out after him, and thus learned of the disaster.

On the top of Deception Pass Mr. Paley's tracks led up the steep side of Fossil Mountain. After a short climb the other mentbers of the party saw Mr. Paley high above them, standing still for a moment. They started up after him, but as he worked out toward the fatal ledge, the extra weight on the ledge and the loose rock sent Mr. Paley hurtling to his death.

Mr. Paley was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, last autumn, for joint research in mathematical analysis.