MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.
* BRILLIANT SCHOLAR KILLED. (Received April 10, 7 p.m.) CALGARY (Alberta), April 9. Mr R. E. C. Paley, the International Research Fellow, who was generally regarded as England's leading mathematician, was killed at Lake Louise on Saturday while ski-ing with friends. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston last autumn for research in mathematical analysis. His body was racovered on Sunday after hours of digging in crumbled rod: and snow. Climbing on skis to a perilous ledge on Fossil Mountain, within a few hundred feet of the top of the 9600 foot peak, Mr Paley pitched into the valley below when one of his skis scraped some loose rock and started an avalanche. He made the dangerous ascent alone. On the cop of Deception Pass his tracks led up the steep side of Fossil Mountain. After a short climb a party which set out to search for him saw him high above them standing still for a moment. They started up after him as he worked out towards the fatal ledge. His ttx'ra weight on the ledge and the loose rock sent him hurtling to his death. Rock debris and snow tumbled in fr-.nt and behind him.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 11 April 1933, Page 9
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