Injured climber slides 300ft

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 14

Injured climber slides 300ft

Press , j DUNEDIN, -lan. 9. A 22-year-old Huntly woman «as in satis-, factory condition at iFrankton Hospital today! after sliding- .">OO feet on a shingle slope on Mount Headlong. North-west of Lake Wakatipu. ■ The accident occurred, [about midday on Tuesday) [when Maxine Ellen Wallis [ I was one of a partv of four j

.climbing at the head of the Dart Valley. It took more 1 than 27 hours to get the injured woman to hospital. Police say she fell on an ice slope and suffered severe multiple grazing to the body !when she slid down the ■ shingle slope. Miss Wallis was carried down the mountain to a hut ;at the head of the Dart Valley, a journey which took three hours. She was suffer ling at that stage from severe [loss of body fluids. Miss Wallace was unable [to walk, and on Wednesday another party in the area took most of the day to tramp down the Dart Valley to obtain assistance from a ’park board ranger. Mr M L. [Burke, who was constructing, a hut in the area. Mr Burke radioed Mount ’Aspiring Park Board head- ; quarters at 3 p.m. From there: Queenstow n police were notified and a helicopter dispatched from Frankton Airport. The injured woman was: picked up from the head ot the Dart Valley and admitted ; to Frankton Hospital. Hockey.— lndia has won ttoej final of the Rene Frank interna-' tional hockey tournament iti Madras. India, beating Belgium , 2-0. India led one nil at half-1 time.