BOYS LONELY FATE
FIVE DAYS ON ALPINE PEAK.
PARIS, August 31. Another tragedy has occurred in the Pyrenees, 100 miles east of Cauterets, where Miss Molly Russell, an Englishwoman, and one of her companions, a French schoolmaster, lost their lives last week. This time it is a boy of 15, named Auche, who has died from injuries and exposure after lying in a crevice for five days with both, his wrists broken. Auche, the son of a Bordeaux schoolmaster, left Aix-les-Thermes, not far from tho frontier, of the little Republic of Andorra, with the intention of scaling a notoriously dangerous peak. He was by himself, and insisted upon attempting this’difficult feat in spite of tho advice of local people, who warned him of the risks that he was running.
He slipped and tell in a “chimney” 6000 ft. high. Protruding rocks broke the fall, and although he was very badly injured he was not killed. Guides did not discover Auche until yesterday afternoon. He was still breathing, but he died in his rescuers’ arms.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1931, Page 3
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