Toll of the Alps
DEATH-ROLL ADDED TO ROPE BREAKS ON GLACIER (Times Cables.) Received August 20, 10.55 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 20. The Tinies’ Geneva correspondent says that the Alps’ death-roll has been increased by five with the deaths of two Germans on the Gruyaz Glacier and three Englishmen on the Jungfrau. The latter were a section of a part}’ led by Professor Finch. All were experienced Alpinists and they were seen through a telescope to slip. The rope broke and they fell into a ravine. BAUER’S EXPEDITION. TWO MEN PLUNGE TO DEATH. (Time* Cables.) Received August 20. 10.55 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 20. A Calcutta message says that disaster lias overtaken Doctor Paul Bauer’s German expedition to the Kanchenjunga, Herr Schaller and a porter named Pasang plunging to death from a rock ledge into a crevasse when a rope broke. The tragedy was watched by Dr. Bauer and his companions. He declares, in a message to the Statesman, that the effect upon them was so uncanny that they all experienced a momentary impulse to follow the doomed men.
The accident happened at an altitude of 17,000 feet.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 197, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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186Toll of the Alps Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 197, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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