SEVEN LIVES LOST
Another Alps Tragedy PARTY OF ITALIANS Way Lost on Mount Blanc By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copy right. (Received August’27, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 26. Reports from Chainounix state that seven Italian tourists while attempting to climb Mount Blanc perished from. exposure. The party lost their way, and wandered for three days between the Italian and French summits. , Five of them became exhausted and the other two placed them in the shelter of crevassed ice and struggled toward a refuge 1000 feet below, where they arrived half dead from cold and hunger; They insisted on guiding a party of twenty mountaineers to search for the missing men, but both succumbed en route. The rescuers subsequently found the five climbers dead.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 285, 28 August 1933, Page 10
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