DEATH OF LEDGE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1935, Page 22

DEATH OF LEDGE

A CLIMBER'S FATE

' After 1 ying for nearly ten hours with a broken leg on a ledge of Pillar Rock; the rugged Lakeland crag, where, he was climbing,- Mr. Frank Roberts, a Manchester scientist, died where he fell, says the "Daily Telegraph."

Friends who were on a climbing holiday with him passed the night by his side, and a party of expert climbers spent over four hours in great peril to recover the body anij bring it down. '

Mr. Roberts, who was a married man with a son less than two years old, of Brocklebank, Road, Manchester, arrived at Wasdale with John Marchington, of Cheadle Hulme; Arnold David, of Didsbury; John Charnley, of Bury; John Clegg, of Middletori; and another friend named Thomlinson. Marchington, Charnley, and Roberts decided to climb Savage Gully, one of the most dangerous places on the Pillar. After ascending about 600 feet they came to a buttress, with Marchington leading and Roberts second on the rope.' In negotiating the buttress by himself Robert slipped and fell twenty feet to a narrow ledge, breaking his leg in two places.

Marchington at once summoned the other members of the party, and they tried to carry the injured man to the top of Pillar Rock 4 But. this proved impossible, and two. of the party returned to Wasdale Head for medical supplies. . , ;

There was room on the ledge for only two members of the party, and they spent the night there with Roberts, th^e others remaining on the top of Pillar Rock. -

~ In spite of their care Roberts died at about 3 o'clock in the morning, and at daybreak two of the party set out again for Wasdale Head for assistance. A party of expert climbers included Stanley Watson, chief of the lakeland guides, Mr. Ivan' Spain and- Mr. W. G. Standring, both of London, Alderman George Basterfleld, ex-Mayor of Barrow-in-Furriess, and Mr. Chamber? lain. ■■ ■; •

The rescue party got to the scene about 10 a.m., and for four hours and twenty minutes took extreme risks to raise ihe body to the tpp' of Pillar Rock and then carry it to Wasdale.

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