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    LOST IN THE WILDERNESS

    May 21, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS_ NICK BRODIE.
    Photo_Nick Brodie.
    PHOTOS_
    NATIONAL
    LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
    AND THE STATE LIBRARY
    OF NSW.

    KOSCIUSZKO is more than just our highest mountain – unbidden, it forms part of our national sense of self. So when in 1928 experienced outdoorsmen Evan Hayes and Laurie Seaman went missing high on its perilous slopes, the mystery of the disappearance gripped the country. Focusing on the mountain, Australians united in purpose. Below is an extract from historian Nick Brodie’s new book Kosciuszko offering insight into an almost-forgotten Australia where man was at the mercy of nature.

    “As the meteorologists had learned a generation previously, Kosciuszko’s climate could be fickle. When the Millions Ski Club arrived at the Kosciusko Hotel about midday on Saturday 11 August 1928 the weather had been fine. In fact it had been relatively fine for much of the season. In late July, the weather in New South Wales had been so mild

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