LURE OF THE ALPS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 829, 1 August 1933, Page 1

LURE OF THE ALPS.

Climbing Tragedies Keep on Growing. OBERSTDORF (Bavaria), July 24 Despite all possible precautions, the list of Alpine tragedies keeps on growing, chiefly because of foolish disregard for the advice given by experts. Rudolf Duensser, a twenty-year-old artist, set out to climb the Ilimmelhorn on Sunda\% without safety ropes, when he slipped, dropping 500 ft to instant death, before the eyes of his horrified companions. A similar fatality occurred at Trettschspitze, when a twenty-seven-year-old house-painter, Wilhelm Schuckert, who went climbing with his sweetheart, slipped over a precipice to instant death. His sweetheart hung suspended by a rope over the abyss the whole night, until the couple were missed, and a relief partv arrived. The girl had to be taken to hospital suffering from nervous collapse. From the Grindelwald. in Switzerland, it is reported that a twenty-five-year-old engineer from London, named Baeregg. fell from a point of the famous peak 5000 ft high, meeting a horrible death.