Fatal fall on Douglas Peak
Greymouth reporter A young climber was killed instantly when he fell .100 metres down Douglas Peak, near the head of the Fox Glacier, on Tuesday. He was Edmond John Webster, aged 22, of Christchurch. Mr Webster was with two companions, one from Canterbury and the other from the West Coast, when a piton holding him and securing his rope to the face came out at 3.45 p.m.
After he fell, his companions endeavoured to reach him but without success and so went to the Pioneer Hut, about 12km;, from Fox Glacier township, and informed the staff of the Westland National Park Board. A party was flown in from Franz Josef but it was unable to reach the body. Finally, the Mount Cook board’s specialist face rescue team, which has developed a new technique, including lowering persons at the end of a long strop, was called in to assist in the recovery. Daylight time and a full moon allowed the body to be recovered about 10 p.m. when it was taken from Fox Glacier by a Hokitika funeral director to Greymouth for a post-mortem , examination, according to Constable M. Breeze, of Whataroa.
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