NARROW ESCAPE ON TASMAN
GRIM FIND BY MOUNTAINEERS
FOILED IN CLIMB Per Press Association. TIMARU, January 10. Dr Bradshaw and Quid© V. Williams narrowly escaped death climbing Mount Tas'man, 11,500 feet in - height. Bradshaw slipped, .pulling Williams with him. They saved themselves somehow, but do not know how. They got to within 110 feet of the top, and were then stopped by a crevasse. They returned to The Hermitage suffering from snow blindness. On the way back from Malte Brun on - Sunday night, on the left-hand side of the Hooky tetter, going up from Ball Hut, they found the right leg and foot of one of the mountaineering party lost in 1914. The whole foot was perfect from the ankle almost up to the knee. The leg is battered. The three lost in 1914 were Sydney King (of th© English Alpine Club), Dave Thompson and J. Richmond Guines. The body of the third man was found, at th© time, and it is not known to which of the other two the leg now found belongs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 4
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