The News Review:
- Trekking in Tasmania? h You Devil.
- Tasmania’s top athletes honoured
- Search for missing tourist suspended
- Heeding the call
Trekking in Tasmania? h You Devil.
Washington Post – Jul 22, 2007
correction {margin-top:8px;padding-top:10px;margin-bottom:8px;border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:arialsans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#333333;}. correction strong {color:#CC0000;text-transform:uppercase;}Trekking in Tasmania? h You Devil. By Alice ReidSpecial to The Washington PostSunday July 22 2007; P01We hadn’t meant to court danger that day. But here we were staring straight over a Tasmanian cliff at a lake 200 feet below and wondering how to get there on a trail that seemed headed into thin air. Five hours of rock scrambling had left our quadriceps aquiver and we were beginning to worry about sunset. So my husband and I did what we had to: We scooted down on our fannies grabbing at roots and rocks to slow our descent. Eventually vertical became horizontal and we were headed toward dinner a warm fire a bottle of Syrah.
Tasmania’s top athletes honoured
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Jul 22, 2007
The two were last night announced the Senior Athletes of the Year at Athletics Tasmania’s annual dinner in Launceston. The President of Athletics Tasmania Barry Roe says MacFarlane would be a contender for the best female athlete anywhere in Australia. “She was ranked in the top ten in the world in all of the world ranking lists that exist and since then she has just gone from strength to strength” Mr Roe said. Tags: awards-and-prizes athletics launceston-7250Search for news.
Search for missing tourist suspended
NEWS.com.au – Jul 22, 2007
article-tools –> By Vincent Morello July 22 2007 11:47pm A SEARCH for a Danish backpacker who went missing on Tasmania’s snow-capped Cradle Mountain more than two weeks ago may not be resumed for months. Tasmanian police broke off the search at 1pm (AEST) yesterday for Kasper Sorensen 21 as last hopes of finding him alive faded. Mr Sorensen was last seen trekking through the snow on the morning of July 5. Inspector Brian Edmonds who is in charge of the search said the window of time for finding Mr Sorensen alive had probably passed. The search will not resume until the weather improves and the snow on the mountain begins to melt. "It could be a week it could be a month it could be three months" Insp Edmonds said… The search was scaled back on Friday when a Westpac rescue helicopter flew back to Hobart because of poor weather. About 15 State Emergency Service volunteers and five Parks and Wildlife Service staff were pulled out today until further notice. Mr Sorensen’s father and brother arrived in Tasmania on Friday and were immediately driven to the mountain by police to see where he disappeared. Through an interpreter from the Danish Consulate in Sydney Yutaka Kataoka Sorensen said his son Kasper was intelligent and loved to challenge himself. His son Kenny said they were giving up hope of finding Mr Sorensen alive after being flown over the snow-covered summit. Mr Sorensen’s ice-encrusted backpack containing camping gear a tent and his passport was found abandoned on July 10. Insp Edmonds said witnesses revealed that Mr Sorensen had spent the night in a shelter hut before he was last seen walking through snow on the base climb on July 5.
Heeding the call
The Age – Jul 22, 2007
It’s really focusing on some of the problems. "ther doctors working in other communities haven’t encountered the same resistance. Tasmanian GP Emil Djakic the first doctor to fly into the Northern Territory under the strategy a fortnight ago says suspicion is too strong a word to describe the reception he received. "Caution" is more fitting. Djakic returned to Tasmania on Saturday after two weeks in Hermannsburg about 90 minutes from Alice Springs. He says the caution that greeted him is understandable. The community had been given only 24 hours’ notice that he and his team were coming… Tasmanian GP Emil Djakic the first doctor to fly into the Northern Territory under the strategy a fortnight ago says suspicion is too strong a word to describe the reception he received. "Caution" is more fitting. Djakic returned to Tasmania on Saturday after two weeks in Hermannsburg about 90 minutes from Alice Springs. He says the caution that greeted him is understandable. The community had been given only 24 hours’ notice that he and his team were coming. Some were "reasonably startled" when he arrived. Some of the elders approached him quietly and asked him what he was doing.