FALL OF AN AVALANCHE
A WONDERFUL 1 SIGHT. Christchurch, Nov. 16. A sight of a kind, that does not come to many men was witnessed by five young men of a Y.M.C.A. tramping party on Sunday. High in the desolation of the mountains, at the head of White River, they were near a glacier, when hundreds, perhaps thousands, of tons of ice broke away with a fearful crash, and fell 2000 ft down the mountain side. The men were lunching at about one o’clock, when a sharp crack like a rifle, shot sounded close at hand. Little thinking that a huge piece of ice that had been hanging from White Glacier, which jutted its enormous bulk over the hillskie at the source of the river, only about thirty yards away, was breaking off. tho trampers proceeded to finish their lunch. Suddenly there came a thunderous crash, and the gigantic mass of ice toppled down the mountain side. The noise was like that of a thunderstorm, and, long after the ice had settled in the valley below, the echoes came back from the mountain sides.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1926, Page 10
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