CLIMB TRAGEDY
DETAILS OF HOMER TUNNEL FATALITY.
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DUNEDIN, February 11
The mountaineering tragedy abovo the Homer Tunnel ,in the Hollyford Valley on Wednesday, involving the cieath of John Hunter Mac Lean, 22, of Dunedin, was caused by a huge boulder striking the deceased and not as the result of a fall down the mountainside, according to information supplied by one oi his companions. Deceased was a member of a party which was fully equipped for mountaineering, the others being George Chance, junior, of Dunedin, and Guide Donald Cameron of Hollyford. They wore returning from Milford to the Horner Tunnel by way of Trave Talbot pass, and were within a quarter of an hour’s walk of the Public Works Camp, when they decided to rest on the ledge. The three men were roped together, Mac Lean sitting between the other two, when without any warning, a huge boulder, six feet above them, fell and struck Mac Lean, death being instaneous. Chance had a lucky escape, the boulder just missing him. An inquest was opened this morning at the Homer camp and adjourned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1938, Page 2
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