Snow Bridge Breaks, Isolates Climbers
(From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, December 17. Two Australian climbers, Messrs R. Pcsener and C. Monteath, are cut off by a collapsed snow bridge on the Anna Glacier, on Mount Elie de Beaumont, at the head of the Tasman Glacier.
Ranger L. Busby, of Mount Cook National Park headquarters, said this evening that the mountaineers became stranded today. Word of their predicament was received by radio from some of their climbing companions from the Tasman Saddle hut this evenling.
would be no radio communication until the morning. The weather today was perfect.
“Neither climber is inljured,” he said. The Tasman Saddle hut is on a rock outcrop on the south face of the Hochstetler Dome at-a height of 7700 ft. A party of four led by Ranger R. Ryan had set out from the hut with food and other supplies, said Mr Busby.
The two Australians and their rescuers might return to the hut late tonight either by using an alternative route or by anchoring a rope across the snow bridge, but there
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 1
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