SKI-ING PARTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7

SKI-ING PARTY.

BURIED IN AVALANCHE. ENGLISHMEN AND GERMANS. SOME BODIES RECOVERED. LONDON, Jan. 2. Innsbruck reports that the worst avalanche disaster for mar.v years occurred at Arlberg, a crystalline mountain mass of Austria amongst the Alps. It is a famous ski.-ing region, but difficult, being suitable only for experts. Ten members of a ski-ing party, eight Englishmen and two Germans, were buried. The bodies of five of the Englishmen were recovered. The noise of the avalanche sweeping towards the valley was heard for miles around.

Arlberg is especially dangerous now owing to a thaw following tne extreme cold. This caused nil enormous snowfield, half a mile wide, to break from the mountain side, engulfing two skiing parties from Zures. Of these two were women, one of whom was killed. Some of the bodies were buried under a snowdrift as high as a two-story house.

The rescue parties worked in relays the whole night through, by the light of flares, digging frantically in the hope that someone might be alive. The faces of the victims recovered so far were calm and passive, indicating that death was instantaneous.A. and N.Z. cable.

SIX OF VICTIMS LONDONERS

Received January 4, 9.5. a.m. VIENNA, Jan. 3. Six of the victims at Zures were Londoners.—A. and N.Z. cable.