CLIMBING DOG’S FEAT

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27675, 3 June 1955, Page 9

CLIMBING DOG’S FEAT

SCALED GLACIER ALONE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 1. A remarkable feat by a dog is reported from Gressoney, in the Aosta Valley, says the Milan correspondent of “The Times.” A 3-year-old Irish setter named Maccabeo, belonging to a hotel proprietor, has climbed the Mount Rosa Glacier alone, crossing frqm Gressoney to Zermatt, in Switzerland. Maccabeo disappeared ' one morning about ten days ago. He was sighted the same evening on the glacier, and two days ago was founs at Zermatt, exhausted, by an Italian climber, 'who identified the da/ by the name of the owner on the/ C ollar Maccabeo has always a marked passion for climbing, v He has often accompanied his on ex _ cursions, blit sometimes he vX ent slone He is probably the ho]d%, r t u n high altitude clfmbing r< cord for domestic animals. Last yc^ r j n one % 10 " el y excursions, he ’reached the Margherita Hut, the* in the world, about 15,000ftf nignesi The previous record J is be ii e ved to belong to a cat which. a vpar a£?o followed a parte of clin nbel .y to t | e top of the Matterhorn back.