Snow stops climb
Plans to plant a flag on top of Mount Rolleston last Saturday to promote National Heart Week were thwarted by strong winds and snow. David Burrows, aged 49, a Christchurch schoolteacher and heart attack victim, was only 160 m from the summit of the 2500 m peak. “We were sinking into snow up to our hips so we had to turn back,” Mr Burrows said. The flag he intended to put on the summit was a Heart Foundation T-shirt carrying the words “Kiss a non-smoker and taste the .difference.” Bad weather has ended several of Mr Burrows’ climbs. He has had to turn back twice on Mount Cook and three times on Mount Aspiring. Early next year Mr Burrows, who suffered his heart attack three years ago, will attempt some tall peaks .in Central America. For five months he intends to climb
in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. His biggest climb will be a 5800 m peak in Mexico.
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Press, 23 September 1980, Page 3
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