SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
LADY CLIMBER’S FALL. WENT WITHOUT GUIDE. Per Press Association. TIMARIT, Juno 21. A serious accident occurred at Mount Cook on Saturday. Miss Davidson, a young lady from Melbourne, left tho'Hermitago at 10.25 a.m. to go to tlio Red Lake at Sebastopol. As she took no guide slie was warned not to depart from the ordinary track. She did not return within what was considered a reasonable time, and the manager of the Hermitage dispatched several guides to look for her. They searched for a long time without success, and were just about to return home when they heard a moan, and found Miss Davidson in some scrub on the side of a precipitous slope, down which she had fallen a distance estimated a.t 200 feet. She was conveyed to the Hermitage on a stretcher, and a doctor was sent for from Fairlie. Besides being bruised all over Miss Davidson had several ribs broken, and suffered injury to her chest and head. The doctor is hopeful of her recovery.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 4
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