TWO DIE ON MOUNTAIN
Attempt On Record (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CONISTON, June 15. Two British students died today while attempting to climb Britain’s three highest mountains in record time as a carnival stunt.
The bodies of Patrick Bird, aged 18, and Kevin Prendergast, aged 19, wtre found on the slopes of England’s highest peak, 3210 ft Mt Scafell, in the Lake District near here. The young climbers had already scaled Wales’s highest mountain, Mt Snowdon (3560 ft and were on their way down from Scafell when they are believed to have fallen. They died from injuries and exposure. A search was started when they failed to return to a car waiting to take them to Scotland to climb Britain’s highest mountain, the 4406 ft Ben Nevis. An organiser for Birmingham University carnival said the two students had suggested making the attempt on the three peaks record as publicity for the carnival. “I don’t think they were mountaineers,” he added.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 7
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159TWO DIE ON MOUNTAIN Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 7
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