DIFFICULTIES IN RECOVERING BODIES OF VICTIMS
CHRISTCHURCH, April 8. Difficult. conditions following heavy frosts, which have frozen the surface of the snow, have held ur the operations of the parties from the Hermitage which left vesterday
> for Copland Pass to: being in* the bodies of the three Wonien. ' 7 It is nqt now expected .that the ? bodies will arrive at ihe Hermitage until early this evening. .Guide "Sullivan, • of Fox Glacier, who brought the news of the disr aster to the Hermitage yesterday morning after he was satisfied the three women were dead. soent yesterday in bed. His condition today is improved, although his frost bitten feet are still painful. * ; Guides. Ayres and Forsyth, who left the Hermitage 10 minutes after Guide Sullivan's arrival, made fast time to Cooland Pass. They found the bodies. l3dng as Guide Sullivan had left -them. Six guides from the Hermitage carried the bodies down about 1000 feet yestorday, after which the whole party of about 3n in number returned to the Hermita°-e. The guides left again at six o'clock this morning with the intention of bringing the bodies down to Hooker Hut.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19480408.2.16.3
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1948, Page 4
Word Count
188DIFFICULTIES IN RECOVERING BODIES OF VICTIMS Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1948, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in