GREAT ENDURANCE
ENGLISH CLIMBER’S FEAT. .ASCENT OF MATTERHORN. EXTRA ORDINARY NERVE SHOWN. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association—United Service.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. GENEVA, July 26. Extraordinary nerve and splendid endurance were displayed in the ascent of the Matterhorn iby the distinguished Cambridge climber, Winthorp Young, who had lost a leg during the war above the knee. He wears a. metal peg limb. He rode a mule to the hut at 10,820 feet. Without, sleep, he started at’ ten o’clock in the evening and reached the' summit a.t seven o’clock in the morning and' descended to the hut in six hours. Hisi most hazardous experience was the moonlight .six hours’ mule descent from the hut to Zermatt. Alpinists describe it as the .greatest in the Matterhorn’s history.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 July 1928, Page 9
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