ADVENTURE ON MOUNT EGMONT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9292, 19 January 1892, Page 2

ADVENTURE ON MOUNT EGMONT.

TWO GENTLEMEN ALL.NI3HT ON THE MOU&T. We take the following account of an adventure on Mount Egmont from tho Stratford Settler : — A party of four gentlemen had an adventure on the mountain which, fortunately, ended all ri,ht, though a fatal termination might easily have resulted. The facts are as follows : — Four gentlemen (three of them being visitors to tho district) left Stratford about 6 o'clock on Sunday morning for tho mountain. The party consisted of Mr T. H. Perm (who also acted as guide). Mr W. H. Trimble (of New Plymouth), Mr Christtfphor J. Richmond (Wellington), and Mr Dunn (Wanganui). The latter gentle man is a schoolmaster. After leaving their horses at the usual place, and taking lunchoon, the "party started to asrend the j mountain between 11 and 12 o'clock, leaching tho summit about 3. After staying a few minutes — it being very cold and cloudy — they started the descent. Shortly afterwards Mr Dunn began td show Hgns of fatigue, and had to get help from Mr Richmond. On getting down about 3000 ft. ho got so bad that it was iiiiipossible to go on, and Mr Perm sent jMessre Richmond and Trimble on, and -stayed with Dunn, who rapidlygot worse; ,and after getting down a few feet further became quite helpless and partially unconscious. After partly dragging and carrying him a short distance, Mr Perm laid him ;in a hollow in the rocks and went to the " camp, threequarters of a mile away, and finding Messrs Trimble and Richmond just about starting for Stratford, ho got their overcoats, a sack, and some food und returned to the sick man, whom he found in the same place. By this time it had began to rain and was getting very cold, and was quite dark Having made him as comfortablo as he could with the coats and sack, Mr Ponn proceeded to build up a wall of atones to get as- much shelter ns possible, a'f tor which he laid down besido tho sick man, who was quite insensible, and sleeping at intervals. After a. lonely watch of four hours, during which the cold was intense, Dunn woke up and camo to his senses, but had no recollection of how ho came where he was. Mr Perm got him to cat, and at last got him on his feet and a few feet lower down the mountain. Shortly .after-wards he heard a' cooee, and found it jt was the brothera Rogers, who had .come up on hearing from Mr Trimble what ha>l happened. Mr Trimble himself ; had got lost, having got separated from Mr Richmond, who got right out to Stratford. The Rogers Brothera having made ,Mr, Trimble comfortable, at once, with* creditable despatch, set out to the relief of' Mr, Perm, who was fully seven miles away from their residence. With their help he succeeded in ( getting to the ridge betAeen' the <Kapuni and the Manganni Rivers,; where, they, camped until daylight, the cold, being intense, and the rain corning down in torrents, so that it was quite impossible to make > any progress. As soon as daylight appeared, tho party got to whore, the horsoa had beon left, and came to Stratford without further trouble. On Monday Mi 1 Dunn was very weak, but was otherwise apparently all right. The greatest cro, it is due to Mr Perm for tho noble way ho stood by the sick man through such a night as Sunday night. Mr Perm says bo is confident that, had the wind shifted to tho south east, it must have been fatal to Dunn, and would have gone very hard with himself. Tho conduct of tho Brothers Rogers also ititnrningout and going to the rescue on such a night is worthy of all praisd. ' , ■ fF,ROM OUR RESIDENT AGEST.J , , Stratford, January 19. — No serious effects have resulted to tho tourist Dunn, .who became exhausted whilst descending the mountain on Sunday and spent the night , with the guide on tho scoria, at a -height of 5000 ft. •„'"■•■