REMARKABLE DIARY.
KEPT IN FACE OF DEATH. TRAGEDY OF THE ALPS. An unusually vivid story of a tragedy of the Alps is contained in a diary recording the last hours of Hans Lutz, a student fvoiu Innsbruck Technical College, whose body was found on the Zillerthal Mountains a few weeks ago. In Lutz’s bauds was a diary, from which it was learned that, when returning from an ascent of the Grosslooffler peak, he fell ISO feet over an ice precipice at 5 p.m. on September 29. He was unable to move, but calmly wrote in hie diary, where ho lay on the edge of a crevasse, his last impressions. Lutz stated that he was suffering no pain, but expected to be frozen to death before the morning. He bogged his parents forgiveness for Ins foolhardy venture alone, and finally described a thunderstorm which broke over the glacier.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20918, 7 January 1930, Page 10
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147REMARKABLE DIARY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20918, 7 January 1930, Page 10
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