ANOTHER ALPINE TRAGEDY
LONDON, August 26. Reports from Chamounix state that seven Italian tourists, who were attempting to climb Mont Blanc, perished from exposure. The party lost its way, and wandered for three days between the Italian and French summits. Five of the climbers became exhausted. Their two comrades place.! them in the shelter of crevassed ice and struggled towards a refuge 1000 ft below, where they arrived half dead from cold and hunger. They insisted, however, on guiding a party of twenty mountaineers to search for the missing men. Both succumbed en route. The rescuers subsequently found the five dead. v
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 1
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