MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY
FALL OF A BOULDER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, February 11. The mountaineering tragedy above the Homer Tunnel in the HoUyford Valley ori Wednesday, involving the death.of John Hunter* McLean, aged 22, Dunedin, according to information supplied by one of his companions, was caused by a huge,boulder striking him, and not by his falling down the mountainside.
Mr. McLean was a member 'of a party fully equipped for mountaineering, the others being Mr. George Chance, jun., Duhedin, and Guide Donald Cameron, Hollyford. They were returning from Milford to the Homer Tunnel by way of the Grave Talbot Pass and were within a quarter of an hour's1 walk of the Public Works camp when they decided to rest on a ledge. The three men were roped together, Mr. McLean sitting between the other two. Without warning a huge boulder six feet above them fell and struck Mr. McLean, death being instantaneous. Mr. Chance had a lucky escape, the boulder just moving him. An inquest was opened this morning at the Homer Camp and adjourned. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 10
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