FOUR ALPS DEATHS. GENEVA, Aug. C. Another series of fatal accidents in the Swiss Alps is reported to-day. M. Pierro Airoldi, a Lugano architect, who with friends was climbing the Rhein AValhorn ('IC.OCO feet) summit in the Adula chain, when, reaching down to pluck edelweiss, he overbalanced and was killed. > | The iMatterhorn has been the scene of a second fatality within a week, 1 a Zurich engineer named Hinnen having lost his life through exposure near the Sol ray hut. where he had been obliged to spend the night iin the opon. Above Loche, in the Rhone Valley, two brothers named Grichfing were making an excursion when the elder fell over a precipice. Yet another tragedy occurred on the south slopes of Argentiere, in the Rhone Valley, where a man named Vanthey is believed to have lost his life through a stone giving way. His
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1927, Page 3
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145Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1927, Page 3
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