TRAGEDIES ON ALPS
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR LONDON, Aug. 18. The Times’ Geneva correspondent says that the death roll in the Alps thus far in 1931 is 85. The latest tragedy involved two brothers and a friend. Ascending a mountain near Chamonix they were overtaken by a snowstorm at 11,000 feet and were forced to spend the night in the open. One brother died, and the friend slipped while descending and was killed. The surviving brother reached a shelter hut, but died from exposure.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 196, 20 August 1931, Page 8
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