CLIMBERS HURT ON EGMONT
1000 ft Slide Down Slope (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH. January 6/ Two men and two women slid 1000 feet down the eastern slopes of Mount Egmont on Friday night and escaped serious injury. They were roped together and this saved them from sliding further when the rope caught on a protruding rock. The four were in a party of 26 members of the New Zealand Canoeing Association who endeavoured to reach the summit. They visited the mountain on their way home to Auckland after a successful cruise from Taumarunui to Wanganui on the Wanganui river.
A rescue party from the Stratford mountain house found members of the canoe party scattered about the mountain slope in near darkness. Two were found making their own way along a branch track that headed towards a precipitous bluff. The experienced mountaineers organised the canoeists into some order and all reached the mountain house at 11.20 p.m. One of the injured women suffered a severely lacerated leg and injured a knee cap, another cuts and abrasions, while one of the men received severe lacerations to his back and buttocks.
Others in the party suffered superficial cuts to hands, arms and legs.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28169, 7 January 1957, Page 6
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