TRAGEDY OF THE ALPS.
WOMAN WHO SAW HER COMRADE DIE. An Alpine tragedy of peculiar pathos is reported by the Grenoble correspondent of the Paris Matin. Two climbers, M. Allimand and lime. Baronnat, set out on a recent Sunday to follow ths course of the River Roize. They lost their way in fog, and fell 30ft on to a ledge juf>t by a waterfall. M. Alliman broke his leg, and neither he nor his companion could escape from the ledge. They lay there helpless for three days and a-half, at the end of which time -M. Allimand died from his injuries and from the effects of exposure and starvation. On the Thursday morning they were seen by peasants. Mme. Baronnat was rescued and carried to a chalet, but M. Allimand' s body could not be moved. Before his death M. Allimand wrote a message for help and pinned it to his hat, which he cast into the stream. The hat was found on the Thursday evening, the message Btill being perfectly legible.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1910, Page 13
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172TRAGEDY OF THE ALPS. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1910, Page 13
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