TOURISTS 5 ORDEAL
THIRTY-SIX HOURS OH A PRECIPICE GENEVA, July 24. A Dutch married couple, spending a holiday in the •Bernese Alps, while on an excursion near Interlaken, became isolated on the slopes of a steep precipice, and could neither mount nor descend. In this dangerous position the pair were obliged to remain for thirtysix hours until a search party from . Gindenwald set out to find them. i They were only just in time, for ; when they arrived at the spot they ' found that the woman was being restrained by her husband from throwing herself into the deep gulf thousands of feet below. With the help of ropes Swiss guides reached the tourists and lowered them’ to safety, whence they were carried, in an exhausted coudi- I lion, to the nearest hotel. j
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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133TOURISTS5 ORDEAL Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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