Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-08-31 | Page 6 | Rescuers Take Three Scouts off Tiny Ledge

RESCUERS TAKE THREE SCOUTS SCOUTS' OFF TINY LEDGE Three Boys Tell Experience on Rocky Side of Mountain n Ur fly Press PLA PLATTSBURGH N N. Y Aug 31 31 Three Boy Scouts who clung for tox their lives to a a tiny ledge feet feel up on the rocky side of mountain told today how they were saved from death after two days of privation and peril The scouts scouts Robert Robert Glenn Tyler Grey and William La Due were Due were nearing nearing near near- ing exhaustion and a probable fatal tatal plunge down the perpendicular cliff clift into a gorge when rescuers in a thrillIng thrill thrill- Ing lag feat of mountaineering hauled them to safety at the end of a foot rope late yesterday Lifted to a higher ledge they were brought down along a wild Adirondack Adirondack Adiron Adiron- dack trail ON LEDGE The youths who were trapped on the sharply sloping ledge when a apiece apiece apiece piece of rock broke of off behind them early Tuesday suffered only slight cuts when they were hoisted up the mountainside From the time we saw the plane come sailing salling down over the mountain late Tuesday afternoon we knew we would be taken down and we just lust waited said William La Due The pilot came so close to us we could almost almost al al- al most talk to him Later we could see some of the rescue party climbing just before dark We were trapped when the rock which we used for a step broke off of and crashed to the ground feet below us La Due said We knew then that we could not get of off the ledge without help It was a ledge about two feet wide and sloping downward down ward at an angle of about 45 5 degrees s. s We had a hard time staying on it TIED SELVES UP During the night he said Glenn and Grey tied themselves to a bush so they would not slide off They slept about an hour but La Due did not sleep at all In the freezing wind wine the three clung together taking turns at standing in the middle It It was a thrilling experience LaDue La LaDue LaDue Due said when we saw the ropes rapes hanging down with th the package of oi food for us us but bu that was nothing as compared to the thrill when I was actually swung out into space on the end of the foot rope Once a shower of loose dirt and rocks rained down as one of the boys was suspended in midair but he was unhurt Another of the boys narrowly narrowly narrow narrow- ly escaped death when one of the ropes about him snapped He was supported by a second rope however until he could be safely drawn up HAULED UP FAST All three were of off the ledge within an hour after the rope was dropped to the rescue party from a plane Each boy was in the air about ten minutes State police United States coast coastguard coastguard guard state forest rangers and veteran vet vet- eran cran mountain climbers cUmbers from all over the Adir Adirondack region were on hand ham with airplanes breeches buoys and other rescue apparatus The five men who hauled the youths to safety were George Reynolds of Lake Placid former Colgate haUb halfback ck Paul Speer a Harvard student Robert Downs an experienced climber from Saranac lake and Troopers Robert Ward and Robert Lipton I