FATAL SLIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 8

FATAL SLIP.

| CUMBER KILLED. TRAGEDY ON GLACIER. ! ESCAPE CP TWO OTHERS. I I ! 1 SIHV IVORS? LOSG ORDEAL. i- : ! i ! toy rel"ST"i3&. —Special- to -St.jjr.'O CHEJSTCHURCH. tills Li.y. j One man was dusked to deask a-nd; j two otkers Bad mira.."iions escapes from ' serioriis injury La a moaanaineerlnj:' ! tragedy on nke West Coast, inland froai j H'.'tinilca. on "Saw YlarN Eve. | Xoraian A. DowLTnz. a y.juna aiaa. of Wellinston. was Sailed wken ke ■sE-pped on a steep scow siope and tell -300 teet to ri.-«ru.-i beio.w. Sis two >ionii;ani'.>ns. F. Davis and J. D. Bremen, wko fail wick kinj- -nxtfered abrasions and bruit-es. Tke ae-..-iden~ o<m-tarred on tke jfciickenzie 5 •(■j-laeier. at tke keadwatens of tke Wain- i - i:offlb« Efw. aNinc 3D- miles- from Hoki- i cika. Tke tkree men wers retuminsr ' from a soccemsfuf ascent of Moont i ; Evans, and were roped togecker. § Frantic Efforts TFnavailms. 1 . Mr. wko was in tae lead, sud- j ; deniy slipped and kurtled keadlong . 1 down tke. skjpe. His two companions ! " | made frantic efforts so kold Rim, but l j wiskotrt avaiL r I After tke fall tke survivors crawled : [back and! reacked skeir camp, at tkree ro'i-dock on -Janoary I- Later in the day j tkey jnsr.de tkeir way to tke junction or | tke Wki "omke and WrUciarson Rivers. ! wkere tkey met anotker pa.rty made np of Messrs." W. EE. Scott. P. F. Scnlly and A. Dean. Mioses J. and. * E. Lorimer. i -VH' re corned to tke scene of tke [ fatality and attempted to recover tke • bodv from tke r®ec of tke precipitousslone.. but tkey kad Co- give tsp atter -several attempts, and set ocrt for Ho&x[tika,. wkere tkey arrived to-day. | iknmediat e iy. searck parties- were : oraanised rmder police leaderskip. and ■ set ont during tke day to- rdco ver tke- ' 1 bodv". t !