CLIMBING MOUNT TASMAN.
MOUNTAINEERS’ NARROW ESCAPE. A GRUESOME DISCOVERY. HUMAN LEG AND FOOT. (Peb United Phess Association.) TIMARU, January 10. Dr Bradshaw and Guide V. Williams narrowly escaped death climbing Mt. Tasman (11,500 feet). Dr Bradshaw slipped, pulling Williams with him. They saved themselves somehow, but do not know hqw. They got within 100 ft of the top and were then stopped by a crevasse. They returned to the Hermitage suffering from snow blindness. On the way back from Malte Brun on Sunday night on the left-hand side of Hockstetter going up from Ball hut, they found the right leg and foot of one of the mountaineering party lost in 1914. The whole foot was perfect from the ankle almost up to the knee, The leg had been knocked about. The three persons lost in 1914 were Sydney King, of the English Alpine Club, Dave Thompson, and J. Richmond (guides). The body of the last-named was found at the time, and it is not known to which of the other two the leg now found belongs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19994, 11 January 1927, Page 10
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176CLIMBING MOUNT TASMAN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19994, 11 January 1927, Page 10
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