LOST IN THE ALPS
FATE OF TWO CLIMBERS I' TRAGEDY RECONSTRUCTED > LONDON, Oct. 9 Mr. F. S. Sraythe, well-known mountaineer, who has returned from Courmareur, in a letter to the Times, gives details of the tragedy which overtook Messrs. Wifrid and Hoyland. ■ , - - The climbers set out on August 23 /intending to bivouac on the Col Kcoles traverse of Mont Blanc, a dangerous route which. Alpinists avoid except in good weather. At this period the weather was unsettled. with /a southerly wind, which 'is always dangerous. - Mr.. Hoyland had been familiar with difficult British crags, but they chose a route on Mont Blanc requiring long mountaineering experience. 1 r Though advised to undertake more moderate climbs, they succumbed to the -temptation to attack the great southern rwall of Mont Blanc. As their tent, candles, and soup •powders had not been used, it is obvious that they did not bivouac, but were killed while ascending the Col Eccles. A broken watch indicated that it took them 6h 52m to travel a distance which the searchers covered /'in three hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 12
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