SEVEN KILLED
IN SWISS ALPS
PARTY DIES FROM EXPOSURE.
(Um-ted Press Association —By I .ectrio
Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, August 26
Reports from Chainounix state that seven Italian tourists, while attempting to climb Mount Blanc, perished from exposure. The party lost their way, and they wandered for three days between the Italian and French summits.
Five of them became exhausted. Their two comrades placed them- in the shelter of creVassccl ice, and struggled toward a refuge one thousand feet below, where they arrived half dead from cold and hunger, but insisted on 'guiding the- party of twenty mountaineers to search for the missing men. Both of them succumbed en route. Tho rescuers subsequently found the other five dead. ...
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1933, Page 5
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