MISSING CLIMBER FAMISHED, BUT SAFE, AFTER TWO-DAY ORDEAL

Wanganui Chronicle, 12 March 1947, Page 6

MISSING CLIMBER FAMISHED, BUT SAFE, AFTER TWO-DAY ORDEAL

(P.A.) Gisborne, March 11. Missing on the rugged bush-clad slopes of Mt. Hikurangi for two days and nights, Miss Therese Tangney, a 21-year-old schoolteacher, of Ruatoria, is to-night safe at Horehor o station, 20 miles from the paint where she set out on Sunday alone to climb the mountain. She is fatigued but in good physical shape. After reaching the summit on Sunday she lost her bearings when enveloped by cloud, and for two days followed the stream until s he emerged from the bush at the back of Horehore station. She hailed the manager, who was working in the paddock. He gave the famished girl his lunch and took her to the homestead, where she is recovering from the ordeal. A telephone message shortly after the girl’s arrival called off the search by 50 climbers and bushmen under police supervision, aided by the Girborne Aero Club’s Moth piloted by 1,. R. Renolds and Army radio equipment. Miss Tangney, who was clad only in shorts, blouse and sweater, had had no food except a dozen sandwiches and chocolate biscuits with which she started th s climb on Sunday.