ALPINE TRAGEDY.
SEVEN ITALIAN TOURISTS PERISH. PARTY LOSES ITS WAY NEAR MOUNT BLANC. TWO DIE WHILE GUIDING RESCUERS. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 26. Reports from Chamounix state that seven Italian tourists attempting to climb Mount Blanc perished from exposure. The party lost its way and wandered for three days between the Italian and French summits. Five because exhausted and their two comrades placed them in a shelter of crevassed ice and struggled towards a refuge a thousand feet below, where they arrived half dead from cold and hunger, but insisted on guiding a party of twenty mountaineers to search for the missing men. Both succumbed en route. The rescuers subsequently found the five dead.
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Wairarapa Age, 28 August 1933, Page 5
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