GEOLOGISTS LUCKY
Escape From Rock Fall (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, Feb. 16. A South African professor and a member of the New Zealand Geological Survey had a narrow escape from serious injury when a wall of water and rocks tumbled below the Fox Glacier on Friday. Professor T. W. Gevers, of the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, and Mr W. Sara, were surveying the rock floor of the glacier. They were making their way across a shingle fan when they heard a rumble. They saw the water and rocks tumbling towards them 300 yards away and ran to the side of the fan. As they reached safety the debris crashed over the point where they had been standing. “It was a narrow escape and we might easily have been killed,” said Professor Gevers. Mr Sara said the fall was caused by heavy rain. Professor Gevers is in New Zealand as a guest of the survey.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30677, 17 February 1965, Page 16
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