A Mr. H. Cheater, a solicitor, 69 years of age,
too old, we should think, for an expert climber, lost his life, on Wednesday week, in the attempt to take a dog up the Lyskamm, a moun- tain near Zermatt and next southwards to Monte Rosa. He had two guides with him, to whom he was tied by ropes, and a little dog. The dog fell over a ledge, and he, leaning over to look after it, fell and dragged his guides with him over a rocky precipice, and over a slope of snow many hundred feet in length. Mr. Chester just survived the fall and then died, having apparently dislocated his neck. The guides, though terribly bruised and injured, sur- vived, and are likely to recover. What could have induced Mr. Chester to take a dog with him up a difficult mountain ascent ? He seems to have said on the previous day at the table d'hôte that "he had no one dependent on him,"—perhaps he meant excepting the dog, and was resolved to live or die with it. If so, it was really a " remarkable " case of fidelity on the part of the man to the dog,—a rare set-off to the innumerable cases of fidelity on the part of the dog to the man.
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