LADY'S NIGHT CLIMB,
IN THE ALPS. £IOOO FOR JOURNEY. Miss Maria Stoll, of Philadelphia, has just made a record ascent, in the Tyro'.ese Alps, and created a precedent by paying her guide, named Piaz, the huge sum of .■Cl,()')'J for the climb. She decided, when staying at Innsbruck, to ascend at night with lanterns to tho top of the ''Tour of "Winkler," nearly V),oQoit„ with almost perpendicular slopes, /it dawn the couple climbed two other precipitous peaks before descending to the valley. Miss Stoll insisted on the ascent being made at night, iu spite of the danger.
This mountain has been rarely climbed, even by the best Alpinists, owing to its great difficulty, and never, it is believed, has such a price been paid to a guide for a single ascent. Both risked their lives during the greater part of the climb in the darkness.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14328, 19 October 1910, Page 3
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145LADY'S NIGHT CLIMB, Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14328, 19 October 1910, Page 3
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