AVALANCHE VICTIM
Body to Remain In Hut Ruins
(NJ!. Press Association) GREYMOUTH, January ft The body of the 31-year-old Englishman, Mr Gilbert Murray, who died in the Pioneer Hut when the avalanche struck early on Monday morning, wiU have to remain where it is in the ruins of the huL Speaking from the spttlement at the foot of the glacier this morning. Constable S. D. F. Reid said Mr Murray's body to buried beneath two tone or more of rock and rubble. It was impossible to recover the body, he said. “It was too dangerous. The rock up above to still moving,” he added. A burial service was conducted this morning for the dead climber by Fox Glacier’s chief guide, Mr Peter McCormick.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30026, 10 January 1963, Page 8
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