Mt Beerwah 1760 Ft, from Coonowrin, 23 March 1894

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

LIVES RISKED IN NIGHT RESCUE

Hazardous Feat in Rain on Mt. Beerwah

Struggling up the precipitous face of Beerwah Mountain in pitch darkness and driving rain, three residents of Glass House Mountains rescued two men who had been stranded at the top of the 1700-foot peak last week.

So slippery were the rock faces that the rescuers – Messrs. B. Croning, R. McCosker, and H. McCosker – had to climb in bare feet. Had any man lost his footing on the ledges he would have fallen a sheer 300 feet to the rocks below.

At 10 a.m. on Sunday two men arrived by car from Cooroy, and climbed Beerwah Mountain, one of several peaks in the Glasshouse group.

Apparently on arriving at the summit they were unable to find their way down again. As there is only one practicable way up the peak, they were forced to stay where they

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