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a snow cave and waited four days for the blizzard to end. On 9 August, with food already running short, they decided to make a break for the
Staircase Hut, but lost their way in the whiteout conditions. They were unable to retrace their steps, and therefore wandered for five days without food, descending the wrong side of Mt Bogong in the fog. On the 14th, the men reached Big River Valley and sought refuge in a hollow log, but they were severely weakened from exhaustion, starvation and exposure. Cole was unable to continue, and it was decided that Hull should stay with him while Michell set out in search of help.
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site in 1973. He also drove an international expansion of the company's wool and tannery operation, particularly in China and
Ireland. In 1987, when the company closed down its wool processing operations at
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