Mt Beerwah 1760 Ft, from Coonowrin, 23 March 1894. LIVES RISKED IN NIGHT RESCUE 97882099?searchTerm=mt beerwah&searchLimits=l-state=Queensland|||l-category=Article ) Hazardous Feat in Rain on Mt. Beerwah Struggling up the precipitous face of Beerwah Mountain in pitch darkness and driving rain, three residents of Glass House Mountains rescued two men who had been stranded at the top of the 1700-foot peak last week. So slippery were the rock faces that the rescuers - Messrs. B. Croning, R. McCosker, and H. McCosker - had to climb in bare feet. Had any man lost his footing on the ledges h
Mt Beerwah 1760 Ft, from Coonowrin, 23 March 1894. LIVES RISKED IN NIGHT RESCUE 97882099?searchTerm=mt beerwah&searchLimits=l-state=Queensland|||l-category=Article ) Hazardous Feat in Rain on Mt. Beerwah Struggling up the precipitous face of Beerwah Mountain in pitch darkness and driving rain, three residents of Glass House Mountains rescued two men who had been stranded at the top of the 1700-foot peak last week. So slippery were the rock faces that the rescuers - Messrs. B. Croning, R. McCosker, and H. McCosker - had to climb in bare feet. Had any man lost his footing on the ledges he would have fallen a sheer 300 feet to the rocks below. At 10 on Sunday two men arrived by car from Cooroy, and climbed Beerwah Mountain, one of several peaks in the Glasshouse group. Apparently on arriving at the summit they were unable to find their way down again. As there is only one practicable way up the peak, they were forced to stay where they were. At Mr. B. Croning saw from his gome a fire burning on the top of Beerwah. Realising that it was a distress signal, he consulted the two McCosker brothers, and they decided to attempt the climb. Sheer Rock Wall The formation of the mountain is dangerous, and it is not thought that any one has made such an attempt in darkness before. The first obstacle to be surmounted was a sheer wall of rock, 20ft high. It had begun to rain, and the men had to remove their shoes to get a grip with their toes in the meagre footholds on the rock face. By the light of two powerful torches they continued the ascent, negotiating a series of narrow ledges at the top of sheer drops, which appeared by torchlight as bottomless pits. When they reached the two stranded men, they found them in an open space 10ft wide, at the edge of a precipice hundreds of feet high. The party formed a line, with a guide at each end equipped with a torch, and Mr. Croning in the middle. The journey down the mountain was far more hazardous than th
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