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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1926, Page 1

CLIMB AMID ICE. PARIS. April 2 The Meije. i3,065ft. the most formidable peak in the French Alps has been climbed for the first time in the winter by the Alpinists, M. Armand Delille and M. Pallor,, who spent three exciting: days on the mountain and had narrow escapes. The mountain can be seen, with its peak wreathed in clouds, from the Lautaret Pass, near Grenoble, where Captain Scott trained his dogs for his South Pole Expedition. The last occasion the peak was climbed was on .Tune Ist. 1924, when an Englishman, Mr Carr, and the Chamonix guide Alfred Couttet accomplished the feat. If. Delille and Dallor went by skis over the lower slopes to the Promontoire Refuge, which is 10,335 ft. They found the hut buried in snow, but they dug a way in and passed the night there. At day-break they scaled the precipitous heights to the summit, forcing their way through a mass of giant icicles, which often broke under their weight and threatened to hurl them to destruction. At one time they, had to climb the face of an almost perpendicular wall of ice 80ft. high. They had nearly reached the top by following little ridges in the ice when 51. Dalloz dropped his alpenstock. He maintained his grip with a Swedish knife and reached the ledge. At- the summit the climbers found a flagstaff which had been planted there by a sumor climber 25 years ago. They used it as an alpenstock on the return journey.

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