MOUNTAINEERS LOST
CAUUHT IN A RLIZZA.RD AMERICAN i( LIMRING TRA<iEUY. SEATTLE, 3rd July. While, feeling his way along a moiin lain ledge in an 'attempt ti> bring help to a, party of mountaineers Irapped on the brink of a chasm and llirealened with destruction 'by a blizzard which nearly blew (hem over, Kdwiu Welzc] fell and way lost in the'depths below, A little while before his companion. Forrest Grealhwiisi', had fallen and dropped thousands of feel. liuth were leading American mountaineers. They were killed in a tragic attempt to lind a new frail around Mount Rainier, one of the, highest peaks on the western coast. Almost within sight of the famous hotel, Paradise Inn, they perished. The members of tho party, roped together, were returning from the pinnacle at an altitude, of 12,000 ft., when a blizzard struck them. One man slipped, and six were dragged over the edge of a cliff. Five landed on an ice-shelf, but Greathotise dropped thousands of feel below. The wind, which was of terrific force, threatened to dash the others into the chasm. Finally Wetzel disengaged himself from tho rope and attempted lo •go forward to get.rescuers, but he him self fell and*was lost. When the storm abated, Robert Strobel made his way inch by in'ch, and hours later arrived at Camp Muir, where help was obtained:
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 8
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