ADVICE TO CLIMBERS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 3 October 1931, Page 5

ADVICE TO CLIMBERS

FOLLOW RUAPEHU STREAMS AI.I. LEAD TO RAILWAY POLICE OFFICER’S COMMENTS (Per Press Association) Auckland, Oet. 3. information which would prove invaluable to anyone lost on Ruapehu in the future was given by Mr A. J. Annison, who for :i year- was police officer in charge of the Ohakunr district. Mr Annison, who recently retired, knows (he territory round the mountain through long experience “If cnl> people who arc lost on the west or the Chateau side of the ■mountain would follow any stream they would at some time strike the railway hue, for the line passes over ail of them,” he said. Once-the line was reached, the worst was over, for some sort of a camp was not far a\vay. That was true cf an arc of "roughly 40 miles from langiwar to Wainvarino. “And, if possible,” he added, “follow that does not go through the bush, which, as was shown in the only too recent tragedy is hopelessly impassable.” Further, in the streams it was often possible to cati b “kouras, or na- ' tive crayfish, which w’ould help to sustain life. He also stressed what has been emphasised before, tbai a party of climbers who realised they were lost should not only stick together, but also camp as soon as they reahsed they were lost, and make the best of it. A container that would keep matches dry, no matter what hap--1 pend to them, was also a first necessity. -