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Show Tho first Alpine accident of the season is reported. Tho victims, M. Odin, a young professor of the Academy of Lausanne, and M. Jansen. a friend not older nor more experienced than himself, him-self, attempted tho asceutof theRochers de Neigo, but, the path being obstructed by enow, they climbed the face of the rock. After taking nearly eight hours to cover two hundred metres, thev found they could get no higher, nncl turned to go clown, when M. Odin slipped and his body was seen by his companion bounding down the declivity. decliv-ity. M. Jansen tied himself to a sapling and raised an alarm. His cries were heard, and a party set to rescue him? but it was not until the ensuing after noon, when he was half dead from cold and exhaustion, that he was discovered and released. M. Odin's body was found some timo later. It bore few traces of external injury. . |