ALPS TRAGEDIES
DEATH ROLL MOUNTING. ANOTHER FIVE VICTIMS. “Times" Cable. London, Aug. 20. “The Times’ ” Geneva correspondent says the Alps deathroll was increased by five with the deaths of two Germans on the Gruyaz glacier and three Englishmen on the Jungfrau. The latter were a section of a party led by Professor Finch, all experienced alpinists. Thev were seen through a telescope to slip. The rope broke and they fell into a ravine. A Calcutta message says disaster has overtaken Dr. Paul Bauer’s German expedition to Kanchanjunga, Herr Schaller and a porter plunging to death from a rock ledge into a crevasse when a rope broke. The tragedy was watched by Bauer and his companions. Bauer declares in a message to the “Statesman” that the effect upon them was so uncanny that all experienced a momentary impulse to follow the doomed men. The accident hap■mned at an altitude of 17? ivet.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 212, 21 August 1931, Page 8
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