MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY
YOUNG CLIMBER'S DEATH STRUCK BY HUGE BOULDER [BY jCELEGKAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DvJNEDIN, Friday Th© mountaineering *. rpJT€ the Homer tunnel, in Holly.orJ Y.nlley, on Wednesday, involving the dpath of Mr. John Hunter Maclean, aged 22. of Dunedin, was caused by a huge boulder striking Maclean, and not as the result of a fall down the mountainside, according to information supplied by one of his companions. * The dead man was a member of a party fully equipped for mountaineering, * the others being Mr. George Chance, jun., of Dunedin, and a guide, Mr. Donald Cameron, of Hollyford. They were returning from Milford to the Homer tunnel by way of Trave Talbot Pass, and were within a quarter of an hour's walk of the Public Works camp when they decided to rest on a l*he three men were roped together, Mr. Maclean sitting between the other •two. Without warning a huge boulder six feet above them fell and struck Mr. Maclean, death being instantaneous. Chance had a lucky escape, the boulder just moving him. - An inquest was opened this morning at the Homer camp and adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 15
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184MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 15
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