A GUIDE'S HEROISM

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 7

A GUIDE'S HEROISM

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 Borclßtold Ridge, near Geneva. The guide, whpso home is in .Evolenee, was in charge, of a party of alpinists descending tfce ridge. Although warned of the dfm*cr, one man insisted on taking tho pk*ec at tho end of the rope. When tho giiide was clinging to a rock above an abyss the man lost his hold and fell several yards. The guide stiffened audS stopped his fall, the shock dislocating Ma shoulder. In spite of terfibjic pain tho guide climbed to tho man a^d rescued him from his perilous position.-

Though particular attention was given the crab-Vating seal which was captured in th» harbour some weeks ago and placed ?n the Nowtown Zoo, it did' not survive, and its body has been handed ovei to the museum authorities, who \^iU prepare it as an exhibit for the ney museum at Mount Cook. This speci<» of seal is uncommon and only a £<j)W specimens have reached New ZealaiW. From the first there were doiibta the seal would live in captivity, but it ,was equally doubtful whether the seal couM look after itself if I'jreed, as sufficient natural food supplies', arc not to . bo found on tlie New Zealand coast.