AFTER SIXTY-THREE YEARS

Western Star, 16 June 1933, Page 2

AFTER SIXTY-THREE YEARS

| RELICS OF ALPINE TRAGEDY An ice-axe, long lost in the Alns h f b <*£ by Chamo Qix "gS a most down n t o the main street of be town. Written on the ice-axewas the name of D r J Bean ■* o ? September kim^t^ There were eleven climbers, includefcSd" t| Bßldeß U - d fiTO SSeached th© summit the next day but on the May down, were surprised bv, Ro Z be rd 'n aild had to dam P Sicn the ,t a aDd the P€dt - Muto£ V of over 15,000 ft their a hallow dug out o f

wiS 1 " ?- da - A ' S the di moers endured ml.driving snow, and terrible «,!d7 the third day, ] ike shipwrecked sailors on a raft, they dropped out of The storm raged for twelve days On the thirteenth day a relief -f twenty-eight guides leffc Chamonix »id forced tlie.r- way up to the scene f the disaster, to find five lifele"! S?J?- ~«» -fcing that of Dr £S •d he c Wef « n °^ S Which »« had had the courage to o t down hour bv hou r „ l>t o the time of his deal* The found. SIX d,Sayi>eared «"d were never It has thus taken Dr Bean's ice-axe escettfc fr'o y€ ;V rS t 0 ,Uake the 12 '«»fb £ 6 I « mount «». travelling e mile s in that time by wav of M enl d€hvers '* «« -c re ts