ACCIDENT ON MOUNT COOK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 June 1926, Page 6

ACCIDENT ON MOUNT COOK.

YOU AG LADY INJURED. There was an unfortunate happening at Mount Cook during the week-end. On Saturday, about 10.45 a.in., Miss Davidson, a young lady from Melbourne, left to climb to the Red Lake, on Sebastopool. Oil arriving at the Jake Miss Davidson evidently decided in i.i v a lie.v muLi! home although she had been previously warned to keep to the beaten tracks. She worked lur'.o on in" should re of and tried to come down a pretty bad l’iico with a lot of loose and rotten rock and a few odd bushes scattered about. Apparently she slipped, and lei I about 200 feet.

When Miss Davidson left the Hermitage she intended to he back lor June]). When she had not returned late in the afternoon, Air Chirk (the manager) thought that possibly something had gone wrong, so Ire sent out three guides, who followed her tracks to a little beyond Red Lake, and there lose iMem. | iiev scoured the lace till after dark, and were just coming home, thinking that probably Aliss Davidson h'ikd gone back by another route, when they'heard a groan. They found Aliss DaVidson curled up in the centre of a bush which she was lucky enough to strike, and which broke her fall. They had great difficulty in getting her out, having to lower her down with ropes, on a stretcher. The injured lady, though seriously hurt, was fortunate in not having been killed outright. She was also fortunate in having been found. It might easily happen that a person lying helpless, and hidden by scrub, would not he found, and it is. not uiilikolv that that would have happened in tin's case had the guides not heard a groan. Tt is believed that Aliss Davidson had been lying where she was found for iiea’rlv four hours. AVithout. delav a medical man was sent for from Eairlio. Ho found Aliss Davidson bruised all over, and with her chest and rihs broken, but he is hopeful of her recovery. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For coughs and colds, never [ails.