COUPLE RESCUED

Grey River Argus, 9 August 1935, Page 5

COUPLE RESCUED

FROM MOUNTAIN LEDGE Difficult Job in Yosemite J (An’, and N.Z. Gable (Received August 8. at 5.5 p.m.) YOSEAHTE (California), August 7. A s»mall group of National Park patrolmen dared death to-day in Order to rescue a young woman, Elizabeth Lorimer, and a companion, Robert Fate, from a narrow ledge on a sheer granite face of the “Half Dome” Mountain. On this ledge they were marooned last night, two thousand feet over the Mirror Lake. The two became trapped when they were lost’, while c’imbing. They were unable either to a c cend or to descend, heeauso a. mis-sten would have meant certain death. They built a. small brush fire, signalling their predicament. Because of th.> danger from rock slides the rescuers laboriously climbed to the ton of the mountain, where they Improvised a st'retcher. This was lowered to the tedge. Then fearful of dislodging anv rock fragments, bv attempting tn null +hn up, the rescuers instead guided the girl, nnd then the mnn dnwn the entire distance to the bottom of the precipice. The woman who was lightly clad, cnfFerod from exposure. Her companion in oven a more sorinus rendition, beennsp he has a broken ?hnnlder and n gachpd bond.