ALPINE TRAGEDY.
DEAD BODIES FOUND,
(BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIAITOH— COPrBIGHT.) (AL'STBAXIAiI AND N.Z. CABLE AS3OCIATIOX.) (■Received August 30th, 8.55 p.m.) GENEVA, August 29. Tho bodies of Sir Henry Hayden and his two guides were ,found below a precipice on the Finsteraarhorn. [A previous message said: Sir Henry Hayden, Director of the Geological Survey in India, and two guides have been missing in the Alps for a fortnight. It is feared that theyhave oeen killed by lightning on the Fmsteraarhoni (14,020 feet) the highest peak of the Bernese Alp 3, which are liable to roost violent storms, such as were reported when the party was climbing.]
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17856, 31 August 1923, Page 8
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