Mount Hutt winds
Sir, — I was a witness to the tragic events on the Mount Hutt road cm Thursday and am saddened by some of the publicised attacks on the Mount Hutt company staff. I am very interested in mountain winds, and particularly in westerly lee-waves. The road over the saddle was intermittently exposed to very strong westerly flows, interspersed with variable winds. This can happen when the “trough” of a high altitude wave intermittently touches the ground. None of us predicted the conditions, and few of us coped particularly well with the emergency, as we huddled in our cars. The Mount Hutt staff however, managed to co-or-dinate a rescue operation, under the worst conditions I have seen, and had to make stfme hard decisions about groups of us trapped at various points on the road. I, for one, am very thankful for their efforts, and the risks to which they exposed themselves. — Yours, etc., HAROLD GUY. August 12, 1978.
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