A TERRIBLE ORDEAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19009, 3 November 1923, Page 10

A TERRIBLE ORDEAL

NIGHT SPENT BY DEAD MAN. GIRL ALPINIST’S EXPERIENCE. Press Association —Br Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 1. (Received Nov. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) Fraulein Teslic, a young hospital nurse, who w.as climbing Mount Hohenwart (7745 ft), in the Austrian nips, fell over a precipice 450 ft high. She was only slightly injured, though she was stunned. When she recovered consciousness she ■was horrified to find the decomposed body of a man with a whistle in his mouth on a ledge beside her. The girl shouted out, but no help came, and she spent the night by the dead man. Finally her cries were heard by a party of alpinists, who rescued the nurse with ropes. The dead man proved to be an Austrian student, who disappeared last summer. He had evidently starved to death.—A. and N.Z. Cable.