Inexperience Cause Of Alpine Tragedy
(Special) TIMARU, This Day. After giving his verdict at Timaru yesterday on the deaths of two mem-* bers of the Victoria University College Tramping Club on the Neumann Range in the Southern Alps on January 1, the coroner (Mr C. W. Wood) said:
“A careful review of the evidence revealed that this party of members of a tramping club, in their zeal to do something worthy, undertook an excursion in which their ambition outbalanced their discretion and judgment.
"The evidence proved that in the party there was a want of experience and organisation, neglect of proper supervision of equipment and lack of training and schooling in anticipating possible sudden changing snow conditions," he said.
A verdict was that the death of Stanley Charles Allan was caused by laceration of the brain and a fracture of the skull from being caught in an avalanche while climbing over the range, and the death of Roy McGregor Dickson was due to a wound suffered through being caught in the avalanche.
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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 5
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