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Show Causes of Alpine Accidents. Many alpine accidents are due to the eagerness of tourists, as well as natives, to get specimens of edelweiss edel-weiss and other rare flowers that grow in dangerous places. Prof. Karl Odoer-fer, Odoer-fer, of Pressburg, is one of the latest victims of this folly. With some friends he was making the ascent, from Veldes, of a peak 4,500 feet high, when he saw some edelweiss flowers at the edge of precipice. He stooped to pick them. He slipped, exclaimed jocularly, "Hopla!" and tried to sieze a bush. He missed it, however, and fell down 1,500 feet into an abyss. |