GUIDE’S HEROIC RESCUE.
Holding firmly to a rope with one arm and his teeth, a Swiss guide heroically climbed to the rescue of a man who had fallen while descending the Berchtold ridge, near Geneva. The guide, whose home is iu Evolence, was in charge of a party of alpinists descending the ridge. Although warned of the danger, one man insisted on taking the place at the end of the rope. When the guide was clinging to a rock above an abyss the man lost his hold and fell several yards. The guide stiffened and stopped his fall, the shock dislocating his shoulder. In spite of terrible pain the guide 'climbed to the man and rescued him from his perilous position.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 262, 1 August 1933, Page 7
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121GUIDE’S HEROIC RESCUE. Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 262, 1 August 1933, Page 7
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