Buried Under Seven Feet Of Snow
BODY OF LOST ALPLINIST FOUND. OVERWHELMED 81l LIDE CHEISTCHURCH, Last Night, The nody of Samuel Edgar Russcjj, the Christchurch Training College student who was lost on Avalanche Peak, Arthur's Pass, on July 30, was found.by a party of searchers early this morning. The body was lying under seven feet of snow and it is thought that death was almost instantaneous.
A large party of elimbcrs was able to commence a search- on. Saturday. Leaving the township at Arthur's Pass early in the morning, they carried out a careful search over the snow slide which enveloped Russell, covering an area of 150 yards long and 90 yards wide, but no trace of the body was
found. The party returned at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The search was continued this morning and the body was found after half an hour. No difficulty was experienced in bringing the body back to Arthur's Pass, where it was put on the train to Christehureh. It is understood that, the body will be taken for burial to Dunedin, where Russell's parents live. The search party will return from the pass at S o'clock this evening. No details are yet available a-s tp how or where the body was discovered.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1933, Page 3
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