Show Skiers Lost on Mountain Survive Mile 50 Wind at 30 Below Zero LOST OST at night in a mile fifty-mile blizzard on the face of Mt Mansfield Vermont where they struggled in a temperature nearly nearly near near- ly thirty degrees below zero Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur F. F White of Amherst Mass and three skiers fellow-skiers escaped almost by a miracle from being listed among the country's toll of mountain fatalities White and his companions started started started start start- ed the ascent of the mountain at five o'clock in the afternoon Darkness was falling and a light snow storm had begun promising good skiing on the downward trip the next day The party climbed steadily for two hours During the latter part of the climb the wind became more violent and the cold increased eased ed until as the quartette emerged above the timber line the temperature temperature temperature temper temper- was nearly thirty below Great Greal sheets of powdered d snow were racing across the ledges on ona a wind of gale force The goal of lf White and his companions companions com corn was a the Taft TaCt Lodge a shelter just und under r the chin rhin of the peak But they now had difficulty dif dlf- difficulty I culty following the trail and md the cold was fast numbing them into h helplessness They n realized that they must get out of the wind so they started retracing tracing their steps They had gone gont scarcely iy A f f yards before the they were oil off the I i frail trail among rocks where the going going going go- go II ing was so rough that they could I I make little ogress pi-ogress ss They need r i ithe ithe the he prospect of sp ri nigh j i In m the snow a J it which r i mf meant ant Pi surer SUP for fork I k all of them I We went into I l White j said and found true out only host I is q Arthur F F. F White light in one of the packs Although Although Al Al- though we had loaded it with I fresh batteries before we started we Wl did not expect it would work because of the terrible cold But when we pressed preSed the switch the beam shot out and within a few minutes we had picked up the out outline line of the trail Several Severa I times we were lost but each time the light put us back on the right fight track At the end of a half hour we found the cabin We discovered later that we had passed within twenty feet of it U UThe The storm was so severe that the four adventurers ers remained in inthe inthe inthe the cabin for fur two days before attempting at atIt attempting at- at It tempting the descent The flashlight flashlight flashlight flash flash- light that Int s saved them from freezing freezing freez freez- ing log on UT the pin r n trail continued to toPI tot PI t I i ve Vt White says as s their sole rut means ars ot of illumination during the three nights spent pent in m the cabin |