AN ALPINE CLIMBER IN TROUBLE.
Per Press Association
AVELLINGTON, October 19
Mr. Turner, an alpine climlser from England, who is touring New Zealand partly on business, is lying in a hospital in Wellington suffering from the effects of an adventure on Ngaruhoo last Friday morning. He set out from the hut halfway up the hill, and roaoh■ad the crater after three hours ice climbing. A terrible gale was blowing, and in this Mr. Turner lost his snow g€ggles. He lost his way trying to regain the.hut, and spent all Friday night and part of Saturday on the mountain in the snow, practically without food. Eventually he made his way to Waioru, partly blind and delirious. Then ho came on by coach and train to Wellington.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 5
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125AN ALPINE CLIMBER IN TROUBLE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 5
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