DRAMA OF ALPS.
MEN'S LONG TRAMP. Chalet Flung Down Mountain By Avalanche. DEATHS IN BLIZZARD. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2.30 p.m.) MUNICH, February 3. A chalet, in which eight skiers took refuge for the night on the Kampenwald, in the Bavarian Alps, Avas flung 500 feet down the mountainside by an avalanche to-day. The silence of the valley was broken by shrieks as some of the skiers struggled from the Avreckage and then dug out their comrades. Clad only in their night-clothes, the men began a struggle through the biting cold towards the town of Lengries. Two collapsed and died en route. The remainder reached Lengries in the last stages of exhaustion, and are now in hospital in critical condition. Altogether there were seven deaths during the week-end gale and blizzard in the Swiss, Bavarian and Czech Alps. Kescuo parties were mobilised in all Alpine regions in search of other skiers cut off by the storm.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 8
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