TRAGEDIES ON MOUNTAINS
SEVEN CLIMBERS KILLED. ACCIDENT AT 17,000 FEET. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Aug. 20; The Geneva correspondent of the Times .says tho Alps’ .deathroll has been increased by five with the deaths of two Germans on the Gniyaz Glacier and three Englishmen on the Jungfrau. The latter were a section of a party led by Professor Finch and were all experienced alpinists. They were seen through a telescope to slip. Their rope broke and they fell into a ravine. A Calcutta message says disaster has overtaken Dr. Paul Bauer’s German expedition to the Kanchenjunga, Herr Schaller and a porter named Pasang plunging to death .from a rock ledge into a crevasse when their rope broke. The tragedy was watched by Dr. Bauer and his companions. Dr. Bauer declares in a message to the Statesman that the effect upon them was so uncanny that all experienced a momentary impulse to follow the doomed men. The accident happened at an altitude of 17,000 feet.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1931, Page 11
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