Salt Lake Times | 1890-09-19 | Page 6 | The Perils of Mountaineering

Tli Perils of Mountaliiooi ln. Mountaineering has its fascinations, but they are principally the fascinations of danger, which sometimes culminate In disaster. A story has come recently from the Swiss Alps of a guide, named Linda, who on his homeward journey foil fifty feet down a crevasse. He lay Injured and helpless for seventy-two hours before his situation was accidentally accident-ally discovered by some tourists, who hauled him to the top of the glacier with a rop. During the seventy-two hours Linda was in the crevasse ho had no food, for he was so tightly jammed between be-tween the walls of ice that he could not got at the provisions be earned in a bug on his back. Ho was, however, able to lick the ice with his tongue. No one will bo surprised to hear that his hands and feet were terribly frostbitten; the marvel is that, situated as ho was for so many hours without food to sustain sus-tain anim 1 heat, he was not frozen to death. Again, it is remarkable that the rescuers Bhonld have passed over not only tho exact spot where Linda felt in, but just in time to save him. Linda is Gil years of age.