TRAGEDY OF THE TYROL
LOST CLIMBER FOUND DEAD A search by hundreds of men for six days in the mountains near Unteraeh, Austrian Tyrol, lately ended in the discovery of the body of a young Englishman. He was Humphrey Jevons, aged 22, a student in engineering, of London, whose father is Professor Stanley Jevons, the well-known economist. The body was found in a moraine of the Elsenkogl mountains by two Ger- , mans who were on a globe-trotting tour, and had joined the search party. ( Mr. Jevons, who had been staying at . Unteraeh for a week, went out alone i j last Sunday for a walk, intending to . I be back for lunch. He never returned. It was believed that he fell down a I precipice. He wore shoes unshod with nails, which would make him liable to slip. 5 After Mr. Jevons was reported miss- s ing, his father and sister hurried to the c Tyrol, and Professor Jevons offered £5O I for information clearing up his son’s p fate. o
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 218, 14 September 1934, Page 11
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