TRAMPERS SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1934, Page 12

TRAMPERS SAFE

DELAYED BY MISHAP

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

_ CHRISTCHTJRCH, May 30. This afternoon at 2 o'clock the two Canterbury College Tramping Club members, James F. Lysaght and Brian Mason, who had been overdue on a proposed journey to the West^ Coast by way of the Harman Pass, Whitehorn Pass, and Browning Pass route, arrived unexpectedly at Glenthorne Station, near the junction of the Wilberforce and Rakaia Rivers, close to Lake Coleridges They were overdue and changed their route down the Wilberforce River instead of up-river, because of a mishap to Lysaght, who slipped when coming down into the Cronin Valley from Whitehorn Ridge, and crashed into some rocks, damaging. a leg and elbow; . The accident compelled the. climbers to spend a; night in the open. Lysaght was unable to move, but he recovered sufficiently next day to get to the Park-Morpeth Hut, at the junction of the Cronin aud Wilberforce Rivers, where they stayed while he nursed his injuries. until yesterday: :

In the meantime search parties have left the Bealey arid also from the Hokitika end. They will doubtless find on reaching the Park-Morpeth Hut that the students went down the Wilberf ore'e.