A DIFFICULT RESCUE
MAN AND WOMAN MAROONED ON MOUNTAIN LEDGE. UNABLE TO GET UP OB DOWN. I I J BRAVE WORK BY PATROLMEN. (Received Thursday, 5.5 p.m.) YOSEMITE (California), Aug. 7. A small group of National Park patrolmen dared death to-day to rescue a young woman, Elizabeth Lorimer, and a companion, Robert Pate, from a narrow ledge on a sheer granite face on the Half Dome Mountain, on which they were marooned last night, at an altitude of two thousand feet over Mirror Lake. The two became trapped when they were lost while climbing. They were unable to ascend or descend because a misstep would have meant certain death. They built a small brush fire signalling their predicament. Because of the danger from rock slides, the rescuers laboriously climbed to the top of the mountain, where an improvised stretcher was lowered to the ledge. Then, fearful of dislodging rock fragments by attempting to pull it up, the rescuers instead guided first the girl and then the man down the entire distance to the bottom of the precipice. The woman, who was lightly clad, suffered from exposure. Her com pan inp is in a more serious condition because he has a broken shoulder and a gashed head.
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Wairarapa Age, 9 August 1935, Page 5
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