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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 189, 31 July 1908, Page 3

THE DELIGHTS OF FALLING.

A Gorman scientist, who recentlv fed over a precipice in the Alps, lias written down his experiences ami sensations. According to him, to full over a prccipr.o is A delightful all'air. The distance he fell was only some seventy feet, and the fall could have occupied, at most, a few seconds; but his thoughts were long and varied. M first," lie savs, "I seemed to be living through the air. At once I clearly saw Lho possibility of my fate. It there was snow, f might escape, hut if the snow fad melted death was inevitable. '• f remember distinctly gripping my Alpenstock firmly, and removing my •vc"l issc-i lest in splintering they in im'ed'my'c.ves. 1 thought too, of the 'mltlc of cordial which I had in m> mcket, and which might be useful if A •cached the bottom alive Then 1 siml,.„lv thought of the grief of those near md'dear to me if i were killed '■ Anon, lying, as it were, on the limit ,f a far horizon, appeared visions of my , is t life. Each episode stood out clearV before mv eyes. Everything seemed 'ovclv. I liad no anxiety, sorrow, pain, v fear I passed through a heaven w ■lorioua blue, flecked with pale-crimson lends, which seemed to waft me hitliei nd thither. ~, , , J - 'then came a dull thud, winch 1 heaid istmcltv. but did not feel. My fa" was „dcd At. thill moment a dark vei ,a,sed over me. 1 called aloud several | imes. and felt my limbs to see it tm\\ , iciv injured. . " Later, mv friends told me that 't ,„ s half an'hour after my fall >f w spoke So the dark veil which seemed o envelop me for onlv a moment or so imst have lasted for thirty minutes.' Ueliohlful as it sounds, we would n.it dvise"others to follow his example If , not "iven to every man to fall from ich a height and live.

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