SHIVERING MOUNTAIN

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 1

SHIVERING MOUNTAIN

w WOMAN DOCTOR'S DEATH The “Shivering Mountain,” a grim, towering neak in the north of Derbyshire, holds a tragic secret that has been baffling the police in this Peaklaud beauty spot. Late on the night of October 15 a young woman doctor fell SOOft to her death down the perpendicular face of Mam Tor. Her body, terribly injured, was found the following morning wedged between two rocks 100 ft from the foot of the mountain face. The woman was Dr Agnes Ned Buckley, of Heatpn Chapel, Stockport. She was twenty-six, and for some time had been working at the Park Hospital, Davyhulme, Manchester. Castleton police are puzzled to know how anyone who knew Mam Tor—as Dr Buckley is said to have done—came to meet with such a fate. The mountain, which is 1,700 ft high,_ is notorious for its dangerous precipice. Its constant trembling and crumbling away explains its name of “shivering mountain.” Dr Buckley drove to the foot of Mam Tor alone in the afternoon. About 4 o’clock she loft her car near the road and began to climb the grasscovered slope of the mountain which faces west. Several workmen saw her at various , points on the ascent, and -when they left work as dusk was falling she was silhouetted against the skyline not far ■ from the summit. That was the last 1 time anyone saw her alive. On their Avay home the men passed the empty car still parked where Dr Buckley had left it, and when they returned tq work the same way at 7 o’clock the following morning it was still there. : Realising that something must have happened to the woman, two of them ! climbed the mountain side and found 1 the bodv huddled between two large I rocks. Dr Buckley, apparently, 'had " been dead many hours. Strewn about ' hero were her handbag and its contents—a fountain pen, silver pencil, and a few coins. In the fall her shoes had come off. They were found some distance away. It is supposed that in the mist and . failing light Dr Buckley walked the wrong way at the summit, and stepped over the edge of the precipice.