SEVEN CUMBERS PERISH
TRAGEDY ON .MONT BLANC
PARTY LOST FOR THREE DAYS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright. I LONDON, Aug. 26. ■Repo-rtls from Chamoumix state that seven • Italian tourists who were attempting to climb Mont Blanc perished from exposure. The party lost its way and wandered for three days between the Italian and' French sum mitts. Five of the party became exhausted on d the two comrades placed them in a shelter off crovassed ice and struggled towards a refuge 1000 feet b e.low, whore they arrived half dead from hunger, but insisted on guiding a party of 20 mountaineers to. search, for the missing men. Both succumbed on route. The rescuers subsequently found the other five dead 1 .
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 August 1933, Page 5
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