CLIMBING MOUNT TASMAN.
MOUNTAINEERS’ NARROW ESCAPE. A GRUESOME DISCOVERY. TIMARU, January 10. Dr Bradshaw and Guide V. Williams narrowly escaped death climbing Mt. Tasman' (11,500 feet). Dr Bradshaw slipped, pulling Williams with him. They saved themselves somehow, but do not? know how. They got within 100 ft 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 Hockstetter 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 had - been knocked .about. The three persons lost in 1914 were Sydney King, of the English Alpine Club, Dave Thompson, and J. Richmond (guides). The body of the last-named was found at the time; and it is not known to which of the other two the leg now found belongs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3801, 18 January 1927, Page 68
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