Memorial Wall to Jennifer Sutton

20 May 2021 17:57 - 20 May 2021 18:17 #76889 by wildingo
I was at Royal Natal this week, and I noticed a plaque, on a wall in the carpark at the Visitors Centre:

 

Wise words, indeed, in this heartfelt tribute to a daughter, a young life lost in the Berg in 1987.  May she rest in peace. 

Does anyone know what happened; there is very little on the internet.

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20 May 2021 18:14 - 21 May 2021 07:30 #76890 by Smurfatefrog
A Google search brings this up www.rationalskepticism.org/nontheism/loss-and-grief-through-loss-of-faith-t25976-20.html#p1018061

During my first year at 'varsity in 1987 one of my classmates died. She was part of a group that went hiking in the  Drakensberg , which is notorious for its fickle weather. It was still early spring, and the group was caught in a sudden snowstorm. Jenny Sutton somehow got separated from the rest of the group and she succumbed to hypothermia

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21 May 2021 04:43 - 24 May 2021 09:29 #76892 by tonymarshall
Although I didn't know Jennifer (she was in Pmb and I was in Durban), I was in the University of Natal Mountain Club at the time, and remember talking about her death afterwards with the some of the people who were on the hike with her when she died. My recollection is that they were snowbound in tents near the Tugela Falls, and that the tent she was in somehow was waterlogged and the bottom of the tent froze leading to the hypothermia which claimed her life.

There was originally a plaque at the site of the tents, then I saw it at the cairn at the top of the chain ladders in 1993, then it disappeared. 

I didn't know about the plaque and memorial wall at the Visitor Centre, but am glad there is a memorial to her that is unlikely to be vandalised.
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