Seven Climbers Perish on Mont Blanc
ITALIAN PARTY LOSES ITS WAY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. Reports from Chamounix state that seven Italian tourists, attempting to climb Mont Blanc, perished from exposure. The party lost its way and wandered for three days between the Italian and French summits. Five bocame exhausted. Two of their comrades placed them in- the shelter of crevassed ice and struggled towards a refuge 1000 feet below, where they arrived half-dead from cold and hunger, but insisted upon guiding a party of 20 mountaineers to search for the missing men. Both succumbed en route. Tho rescuers subsequently found tho five dead.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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