GIRL'S TREK
WAIST-DEEP IN SNOW MELBOURNE, July 1. The amazing achievement ol 17-year-old Beryl Williams, who is lying m bed recovering jfrom the optical of her dash through, the snow from Mt, Hot-ham Chalet to the hut of Yv. Bpargo, on Hotham heights on ,Saturday afternoon, was described by Mr. Spargo as a feat that, no other woman could have accomplished. Scratched and bruised about t iny legs, the girl .readied Spargo’s hut on Saturday, with an urgent message from the Chalet after a desperate struggle through the snow for seven miles in the precipitous Swindler’s Creek Valley. Before sbo left the Chalet she had only a cup of lea, and her equipment, for the, hazardous journey was snow hoots, long ski-ing trousers and a. pullover. _ , Spargo said that Beryl had reached the. hut completely exhausted. Practically all the way she had struggled in snow up to her waist. “Sho had cut a trench so deep over about two miles of the trip that 1 could not. ski from my hut to Hotham Heights,” said Spargo- “I had to walk along the path she had -made.” Mr. Cribble, manager of the Chalet, said that the girt'was one of the. games! ho had known. He had not realised the difficulties of the journey.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 13
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