Dreadful Accident on Mount Egmont.
TWO MEN SLIP DOWN A GLACIER.
A shocking mountaineering accident occurred at Mount Egmont on Sunday morning.
Two men, named C. R. Beaumont (married, with a large family), and J. T. McGeoch (single), left for the summit, but did. not return. A search party found them at midday yesterday at the bottom of ar glacier, dead, and frozen hard.
Beaumont had evidently slipped on frozen scoria, and McGeoch, in trying to save him, slipped too. They must have fallen 300ft.
The bodies were found 6ft. apart. Beaumont was a bit knocked about, but McGeoch was not much marked, and it looks as if he became frozen to death whilst attempting to suceour his wounded companion.
A party has gone out to-day to bring the bodies down. Both the deceased were well-known and highly-esteemed residents of Hawera. — Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 April 1898, Page 3
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143Dreadful Accident on Mount Egmont. Manawatu Herald, 14 April 1898, Page 3
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