OLD ALPINE ADVENTURE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 8

OLD ALPINE ADVENTURE.

I The Rev. Albert S. W. Young, for 41 years vicar of Kingston-on-Thames, diod recently, aged 73. Ho. "was never married and aKvays said he would live and die vicar of Kingston. In August, 1866. ho had an Alpine experience which is vividly described by Mark Twain in "The Tramp Abroad." With, his two "brothers, Sir George Young and James, all being expert climbers, he made tho ascent of Mont Blanc without guides or porters. People in Chamonix with telescopes saw them reach the summit and begin the descent, roped together, but in a few minutes they dropped out of sight. Then they were sean again, having fallen 2000 ft down an almost perpendicular slope of ice to the border of the upper glacier. It was thought all must be dead, but after a while Albert and George got to their feet and for two and a half hours laboured to restore tlieir brother, but in vain. Presuming their journey, they took from twilight to 3 a.m. to get to the Grande Mulets, the first safe stop-ping-place. Here a rescue party from Chamonix met them.'- Sir George took the lead to tho snot where his brother James had been left, but he was dead with a broken neck, though there were no bruises on tho body.