Girl climber hurt
* .V £ luuciiitiuH/ INVERCARGILL, January 9. A woman climber from Huntly is in the County Hospital at Frankton as a result of an accident in the I p|»er Dart River area at the head of Lake Wakatipu. Miss Maxine Ellen Wallis, aged 22. was traversing a small glacier with three male
companions at mid-day on Wednesday on the upper slopes of the 7800 ft Mount Headlong when she slipped and fvtl 300 ft down a shingle slide. The climbers were not wearing crampons. Miss Wallis suffered •severe grazing, and could not walk. She was carried for about three hours down rugged scree and tussock to rhe LTpper Dart hut. Another party there undertook to make the full-day .tramp out to Daley’s Flat, where the Mount Aspiring Park ranger. Mr M. Burke, was building a new hut. Mr Burke radioed his wife at Gienorchy Ranger Station, and she contacted the Queenstown police at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. Constables S. Hallman and : L. Alderson, both of Queenstown. left Frankton Airport 'in a helicopter with Mr Don [Sparv an hour later, uplifted
th“ girl from the Dart hut. and took her to hospital. Apart from grazing, she was suffering from loss of fluid from weeping wounds.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 2
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