SKI-ING FATALITY
DANGEROUS ASCENT ALONE. ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN. CALGARY (Alberta), April 9. Mr R. E. C. Paley, aged 25, an International Research Fellow, who is generally regarded as England’s leading mathematician, was killed at Lake Louise on Saturday while ski-ing with friends. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston last autumn for joint research in mathematical analysis. The body was recovered ou Sunday after hours of digging in crumbled rock and snow. Climbing on skis to a perilous ledge of Fossil Mountain to within a few hundred feet from the top of the 9600 feet peak, Mr Paley pitched into the valley below as a result of one of his skis scraping loose rock and starting an avalanche. He took the dangerous ascent alone, and later some of a party which set out to track him learned of the disaster. Mr Paley was educated at Eton and Cambridge. On the top of Deception Pass Mr Paley’s tracks led up the steep side of Fossil Mountain. After a short climb the trackers saw Mr Paley high above them, standing still for a moment. They started up after him. As he worked out towards the fatal ledge the extra weight on the ledge and loose rock sent Mr Paley hurtling to his death. Rock, debris and snow tumbled in front of and behind him.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 11 April 1933, Page 9
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