INJURED GIRL ON MOUNTAIN
Six-Hour Vigil By Two Others (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 17. Two girls shielded an injured girl climber with their bodies against gale force winds for six hours on the snow-C}vered slopes of a mountain in Snowdonia l;ast night. The girl, 19-year-old Mary Gahan, of Dunmanway, County Cork, Eire, had fallen and hurt her head. Her companion, a young man, who was not identified, went for help to a warden’s hut.
While he was gone, three other climbers—two girls and a boy—found the girl lying injured. She had fallen in the “Devil’s Kitchen,” a 300-foot chasm, about 1500 feet above Lake Edwal.
One of the two girls stretched out in the snow. The injured girl was placed on top of her and the second girl lay on the two of them.
The boy stood on the windward side of the three and flashed his torch until they were found by the warden- and the injured girl’s companion. The girl was admitted to Bangor Hospital with head injuries.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 10
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