TRAPPED ON PEAK FACE
During a series of violent storms which raged across Switzerland last month, wreaking widespx-ead havoc, a young Lausanne climber hurtled to death down a 2000 ft precipice. The tragedy is described in a message from Lcs Plans sur Bex, in the Rhone Valley, relating how Georges Eperon. the student son of a well-known Lausanne surgeon, left Les Plans alone on a rockclimbing expedition to the dangerous “Argentine ” Peak. The next day guides discovered his mangled body at the foot. He had apparently fallen while trying the descent of the almost perpendicular cliff by means of a rope flung over projecting rocks. When a short distance down he must have found himself trapped, unable to ascefid jot descend, and to have spent many hours in this terrifying position, until, numbed with cold and exhaustion, he crashed on to the rocks below.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 13
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