GIRL'S FIGHT FOR LIFE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9696, 4 March 1910, Page 3

GIRL'S FIGHT FOR LIFE.

PATHETO DETAILS OF THE ALPINE TRAGEDY.

Geneva, January 6. The details of the death of Miss Kate Eastman, the London girl, while attempting an ascent of the Ohamossaire to see the sun rise, show that the tragedy is one of the most pathetic in the annals of Alpine ci issstsrs Miss Eastman left her hotel clad in a light skirt and blouse and light brown shoes. She was singing as she started up the mountain. She took the wrong turning where three paths meet, and was soon in difficulties. When some distance above tbe village of Panes she fell 150 feet, then bounding off a ledge, fell another 90 feet. Bloodstains in tbs snow mark the places where she fell. , Although badly injured, Miss Eastman heroically tried to reach tbe village of Esergillnd. She crawled painfully through a pine forest for a distance of a quarter of a mile, and then collapsed within 20 yards of the first house. She was so weak that she was unable to shoot for help. The marks in the snow show that she struggled repeatedly to rise* but she steadily became weaker through cold and loss of blood. Miss Eastman’s body was found by Forolaz. tbe guide, who noticed the bloodstains on the snow. Miss Eastman’s father insisted on following the route taken by his daughter, and in this way the history of her movements became known.