ACCIDENT ON MOUNT EGMONT
GIRL’S NARROW ESCAPE
STRATFORD, Afarch 24
Sliding 500 feet on an ice mount yesterday, Miss Eileen Byron of Stratford received a severe cut on the knee and general bruising, but she was fortunate that her injuries were not more serious for a boulder halted the slide and prevented her from being precipitated in up the Kapuni Gorge. AI iss By ion was a member of a party of twelve who climbed to the summit • n tlu> Stratford side near the head of Kapuni Gorge. She lost her looting •md slid down a steep ice slope until arrested by a boulder. Wlmn her companions reached her die was found to be suffering from a severe bruising and a cut on the knee. She was carried down the mountain-■-•>'de bv Messrs Gernhoeffer (Toko) and Turv (Urcnui) to the Dawson Falls House, where she was attended by Dr Fogarty, of Greymouth.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1930, Page 3
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