ALPINE FATALITY FEARED.
TOURIST AND TWO GUIDES MISSING. |BY TELEGRAPH. —PRES§ ASSOCIATION] Christchurch, Tuesday. The Hon. Rhodes has received a wire stating that Mr S. L. King and Guides Thompson and Richmond have been missing on Mount Cook since Friday, and it is feared they have been swept into a crevasse by an avalanche. Christchurch, This Day. They left on Tuesday to climb Mount Cook from the Tasman side and wore seen on the sumimt at noon on Thursday. Their steps downagain were picked up that evening, and the tracks followed until obliterated by a huge avalanche on Linda Glacier. The glacier is very broken here, and if the party was caught they would be swept into a crevasse and never SBen again. Search parties have been organiaed.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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128ALPINE FATALITY FEARED. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 5
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