TRAGIC DEATH
BRILLIANT STUDENT
SKI ACCIDENT IN ROCKIES
FATAIi AVALANCHE
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CALGARY (Alberta), April 9. MV. R. E. C. Paley, aged 25, generally regarded as England's leading] mathematician, was killed at Lake Louise oii Saturday while skiing with friends. His body was recovered on Sunday after an hour's digging in crumbled rock and snow. ■ Climbing on skis to a perilous. ledge on Fossil Mountain, within a, few hun: dred feet from the top of the 9000 ft peak, Mr. Paley pitched into a valley below as a result of one of his skis scraping ■ a light rock and starting an avalanche. He took the dangerous ascent alone, and later a party of friends set out to track him. After a short climb they saw Paley high above them standing still for a moment. They started up after him as ho worked out towards,the fatal ledge. * The extra weight on the ledge and loose rock sent Mr. Paley hurtling to ■His death. Rock debris and snow tumbled in: front of and behind hiuv Mr.: Paley was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of -Technology, Boston, last fall' for research into mathematical analysis.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 9
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TRAGIC DEATH
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 9
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