PLUNGE TO DEATH.
GERMAN CLIMBER’S FATE. LONDON, Aug. 20. A message from Calcutta says that disaster has overtaken Dr. Paul Bauer’s German expedition to Mount Kanchenjanga", Herr Schaller and a porter plunging to death into a crevasse when their rope broke. The tragedy was watched by Dr. Bauer and his companions. Dr. Bauer declares in a message to The Statesman, that the effect upon them was so uncanny that all experienced a momentary impulse to follow the doomed men. The accident happened at an altitude of 17,000 feet.
This German expedition was last heard of in June, when it left its base at Darpjeeling, about the time when the recent British expedition was engaged on the conquest of Mount Kamet, also in the Himalayas.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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