MOUNTAINEERING FEAT.
BY ONE-LEGGED MAN. ASCENT OF THE BIATTERHORNHAZARDOUS MOONLIGHT CLIMB. <By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.; GENEVA, July 26. Extraordinary nerve and splendid endurance displayed in an ascent of the Matterhorn by the distinguished Cambridge climber Mr Winthop Young, who lost a leg during the war above the s knee. He wears a metal peg limb. He rode a mule to the hut at an altitude of 12,820 feet. Without sleep he started at 10 o'clock in the evening and reached the summit at 7 o'clock in the morning. He descended to the hut in six hours. His most" hazardous experience was a moonlight six hours' mule descent from the hut to Zermatt. Alpinists describe the feat as the greatest in the Matterliorn's history.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17466, 28 July 1928, Page 7
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