FALLING ROCK HITS WOMAN MOUNTAINEER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18043, 31 December 1926, Page 13

FALLING ROCK HITS WOMAN MOUNTAINEER.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH ON MT. EGMONT. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH. December 30. , High tip on the slopes of Mount Egmont to-day a distressing accident occurred. Mrs Marks, of Hamilton, having both legs broken by a rock which became detached from the mountain-side and rolled down amongst a party consisting of Mr and Mrs Marks and Mr and Mrs Williams, all of Hamilton, i The party, who had been staying at the North Egmont Hostel for several days, left the hostel without guides on a climb to the summit this morning. When within lifteen hundred feet of the top Mrs Marks was some distance ahead of the party, one of whom saw a rock tumbling down the steep moun-tain-side. and called out to Mrs Marks but too late to avert the accident. The big stone crashed into the woman’s legs, badly smashing one and cracking I the bone of the other. A member of the party immediatelv ! left for the hostel, whence a party set out with a stretcher. Then commenced a tortuous descent over shifting scoria and a slippery track. The hostel was reached late this afternoon and the injured woman at i once, conveyed to New Plymouth Hospital.