UNDER NINE FEET OF SNOW.
Two experienced Alpinists and slo-ers, > I Jean Edelmann. aged 34, of the b«j«r , , Alpine Club, and Alfredo Rivetti, of the. * , Italian Alpine Club, have lost then lives on Monte Rosa. According to a message from Geneva* ; ; ;"| | two men left Gressonay, on the tL~ iail . side, guideless, to ascend the Monte Bos.?! which towers 15,217 ft above sea level, some weeks ago; but as they did not re* \, > turn on December 31, 12 guides, & Italian Alpine troops (ordered by the Ire; . . y feet of Biella), 40 volunteers,on skis, and ; , ; several great St. Bernard dogs, explores ,; ; ; the mountain slopes, which are , buried ;. under deep snow, and are dangerous on account of avalanches. At a height of 8000 ft. where an »v*' L lanche had recently fallen, th" dogS .'- r started barking and 'scratching the snoWo which was dug, and at a depth >'* *»* , the two dead bodies were found, with tu«. „ ' skis still attached to their feet, V,'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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160UNDER NINE FEET OF SNOW. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14925, 24 February 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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