A TOMB OF ICE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 31 October 1910, Page 2

A TOMB OF ICE.

SLOWEST FUNERAL MARCH.

■ The people of Chamounix, the little Alpine town at the foot of Mont Blanc, are watching the great Bossons glacier in its slow progress downward. Embedded in its icy mass are the bodies of J. .C. Randall, an American bank treasurer, and five guides, who, with two other tourists and three guides, perished m a snowstorm while climbiHg Mont Blanc forty years ago. The bodies of Dr. James Bean and the Rev. George McCorkindale, a Scottish cler»anan, with three guides, were recovered at the time of the disaster in 1870. Mr Randal''s body and those of the other guides have lain in the tomb of ice ever since, and are being carried downward inch by inch. In a few weeks the bodies will be revealed", and an attempt made to recover them for orthodox burial. Miss Edith Randall, the daughter of the dead tourist, has visited the glacier twice in recent years.