UNDER AVALANCHE
EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE. Buried under the snow for 41 hours, two Austrian mountaineers owe their lives to their presence of mind. They were swept down the side of the Grossvenediger, a mountain 19,000 feet high, by an avalanche. When the avalanche stopped they found themselves in a cavity completely surrounded by snow which began to freeze solid. After vainly trying to crawl out they thrust a pair of skis through the snow above them in order to admit, air and to show any passer-by where they were to be found. Creeping together into a sleeping-bag they awaited their fate. By a happy chance some soldiers passing by 41 hours later caught sight of the skis, and, digging through the snow, found the two men unconscious and frostbitten.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)
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