Show DEATH demi IN THE ALPS AMS STORY OP OF A FATAL PALL FALL ON I 1 HE MATT MATTER ERHORN HOHN two ivic climber climbers swept away with the dead body of their guide demart Re mart able courage and perseverance brought them to safety ono one of the most thrilling stories in n alpine history ie Is that of mr s fall on the u writes aubrey ln lo wavu I 1 with two Zernia lt kundt alphuns alphons burrer and agusti gen ion tinetta this joung englishman had made a quick ascent of the mountain and was a 1 long ua w iowa doun on the return journey at one slot ai ot it la Is neets ear oar to cross a coufol or gully of snow and ice and doun doan this acts inel fall roost most of the stolle that ach themselves from the lite ed face of the peak tho the g slide ilde furrer was making his way wa over when a tore dropping fron from a considerable lielet struck him full till on tho the licad and instantly killed him the two a attached by their rope to chiv hiv hi ead dead boda bod were unable in their pro earlous foothold to resist the shock and were immediate swept nual ava down the conlon con loi it t arel their nici were torn from their grap and gentinetta who never lost ion con was convinced that death must await then them at the end of that ahful journey but this thin inin in in of iron and anti nor neno noro o kett kert his presence of mind and shoved bubat a stout beart and a keen leen can do even in tit the trost desperate about acet below the spot aher i the parti part were carried nt oft a email small berg or crevasse ran across the ice ifopo which forms the hase of the Matt erhorn on ite its eastern side hia this crevasse creva ee q not always dpn in n fac in lit october 1903 when I 1 went on to tho the mountain to photograph tho the scene of thia this act deot if it did not exist at all beneath ll 11 are ice fee ciffra and anone shooting shoot lne he the crevasse and falling over aiese wb ld hive ivie a sheer drop which mist larn i dlatt that 1 be fatal but tn in mr fr slog hoglo tt s cas case tho the crack wae was stivi ral feet trot wide tind and into it the two faill lining men anil and their companion wore were stated tho chasm chasin wae was firtl filled with annes tone and land gaad and mr fell face down gentinetta though terribly bruised nn instants s delay seized tile he helpless hel plesa form 0 ili his employer tr Lr stilled him out of the poso tiou alo in which he lie lay almost suffocate sullo cat ing and cleared the sant iut aut of lift throat and eyes his ja jan waa broken anil anti his lits bullies were oven even worse than troge 1 of benti retta lut but no other bons werf were en the Jl Ji was alread aad enough but at an corrent an e even inore more derrll ie catastrophe threatened abe two poor wounded men in the crevasse the was as I 1 hao hie said a tibi natural channel for falline tall ln stones and it ai a i juat just the hottot hott rbt hour of the day when the enow aas fast and anti from its fetters tho missiles it had earlier held fast frozen to clip mountain it was V as imperative to low no time in waiting for assistance from the other parthia who vere on the Matt erhorn bo the guide and the englishman without axes bruised and eak oak start ed on the desperate task of climbing back up that glass blood stained wall N all a 9 task hard enough tn for nn an un tin injured and fully rt d jart how flow it was accooe gentl nerta netta declares arcs he does jio ito know but by an extraordinary i of pluck and skill the two to at length their old tracks truels and a place 01 1 safet assistance wax was no at halal hand and with the help of th other parties the Noun wounded ded men 11 arrived at bit th hotel though isle up tip fr kir many weeks after both in the end made ai at excellent recover poor floor furrer 4 bodi was stilt alch 1 cult brought down next da cla from rn the or masse |