EIGHT ALPINISTS DEAD
FIERCE STORM IN SWITZERLAND.
MANY CLIMBERS OVERTAKEN.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Berne, Sept. 11.
Eight alpinists are dead and several injured as the result of storms and torrential rains sweeping Central Switzerland at the week-end. Three climbers from Basle fell to their death from the Galenstock peak. The bodies of two Italians were found on Montrose. Two tourists are missing on the Gletschom. Hopes of their survival have been abandoned. Another climber died from exhaustion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 5
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