ALPINE TRAGEDY
FOUR FRENCH TOURISTS KILLED FALL INTO CREVASSE WHILE CLIMBING THE BREITHORN (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Service.) London, July 15. An Alpine tragedy in the Zermatt district is described by the “Daily News” correspondent at Geneva as the worst for a quarter of a century. A whole party of four climbers perished. Watchers from the hotel :it Gornergrat witnessed every phase of the tragedy. It was even possible through a telescope to observe three alpenstocks in the snow and a trace of blood where the climbers had fallen. The victims were French tourists named Lebeequc. Degigord, Guibert, and Langlois. ’They started early on Friday to climb the Brefthorn, and remained for hours on a spot some dis- , tanee up. Finally they made a supreme effort to reach the summit. The first, man lost his footing and fell a thousand feet into a crevasse, dragging two of his comrades. The third soon disappeared in the abyss. Relief columns immediately searched for the party and found all dead.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 245, 17 July 1928, Page 9
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