Air-drop to climbers
The weather at Mount Cook cleared sufficiently yesterday afternoon for an airdrop of food and radio batteries to be made to Graeme Dingle and Jill Tremain at the Murchison hut.
In a report to the Canterbury Mountain Radio Service the climbers said that they hoped to take advantage of the slowly clearing weather to move on today to the Godley hut, on the next stage of their winter traverse of the Southern Alps. Mr Dingle and Miss Tremain arrived at the Murchison hut on August 24 and have been confined there by continuous snow and high winds.
The air-drop was made to replenish food supplies which were running low and to provide new batteries for the climbers’ two-way radio.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19710902.2.138
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 14
Word Count
122Air-drop to climbers Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 14
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.