There are a couple of posts in the Cradle Mountain Snow reports about Scott & Kilvert as well.
From ABC News
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-15/b ... ection=tasHundreds of people have turned out at a Tasmanian high school to remember a student and a teacher who died during a bushwalking trip 50 years ago.
David Kilvert, who was 13, and his teacher Ewen Scott died in 1965.
They were part of a school bushwalking group from Riverside High School that got caught out in an unexpected blizzard in the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park.
According to the Search and Rescue team David Kilvert had fallen and injured himself and died despite the best efforts of Ewen Scott to shelter him.
Scott was found just 200 metres from a shed where part of his group were sheltering.
Today family and friends of the pair gathered for a special anniversary in their honour.
Former student Mark Whittle was on the trek half a century ago.
"I remember the whole trip very vividly, from the start to the very end and I guess the events from the last day I can remember very clearly what happened," he said.
"We encountered freezing, blizzard-like conditions with gusty wind picking up the fallen snow and driving it into our faces.
"Particularly I can remember the time that Ewen Scott, the teacher, said to two of the boys one of whom was me, that he would look after David and insisted that we continue on with the others."
Tragedy still 'resonates' with the school
Mr Whittle said he was moved that the school would hold a service to remember the event that had such a profound impact on his life.
"The impacts on those people who were on the walk and the families, people back then didn't receive counselling," he said.
"A lot of people have carried a lot of memories and a lot of feelings and emotions which they haven't been able to express."
Riverside High School principal Greg Morgan said it was important for the school to pay tribute.
It touched the lives of the school community incredibly deeply at the time and that impact has resonated through those decades," he said.
"The principal at the time, KJ Walker, said this event will live forever in the culture and the history of the school and they were very prophetic words."
David Kilvert's sister, Daphne Longman, said her brother was a bright and intelligent boy with a big future.
"So that was what was very sad, to lose somebody who you wondered what future he would've had," she said.
"Of course he would've been almost 65 now.
"We don't need a special place, Cradle Mountain's our memory of him and all the family have tried to make yearly excursions up there ... and a little nip of whisky, a drink to David."
A group has planned a trek back to Cradle Mountain this weekend to the hut built as a memorial shortly after the tragedy.
There are now plans to make a permanent memorial at the school.