ANOTHER MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.
SEVEN PERISH ON MONT BLANC. ITALIANS LOSE THEIR WAY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegranh—Copyright. LONDON, August 26. Reports from Chamounix state that seven Italian tourists, attempting lo climb Mount Blanc, perished from exposure. The party lost its way and wandered for three days betw-een the Italian and French summits. Five became exhausted. Two of their comrades placed them in rhe shelter of crevassed ice and strug r gled towards a refuge 1000 feet below, where they arrived half deal from cold and hunger, but insisted upon guiding a party of 20 mountaineers to search foa- the missing men. Both succumbed en route. The, rescuers subsequently found the five dead.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12433, 28 August 1933, Page 4
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112ANOTHER MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12433, 28 August 1933, Page 4
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