The narrator tells the viewer Mrs Appleyard committed suicide at the Rock.
No, the narrator simply points out that Mrs. Appleyard apparently fell after trying to climb the rock. He says nothing about suicide. Without a suicide note, who would possibly know?
The original ending clip can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2RRdsIjsj8
Mrs. Appleyard was obviously disillusioned after losing funding for her college and Sara's sudden suicide. She's drawn to Hanging Rock, the source of her troubles, and wanders around climbing the outcropping and even falls asleep on the rocks in midday at one point. She starts climbing again and it's at this point that she "sees" Sara through a large crack and proceeds to walk toward her, which is the last we see of her alive. She was obviously delusional at this point, tired and thirsty; she was haunted by Sara's suicide and no doubt felt partially responsible. So the "Sara" she sees isn't real; it's a figment of her troubled imagination. She ends up falling off the top at some point. While this was likely an accident while suffering mental breakdown and delusions, there's still a small possibility it was suicide. The film leaves it up in the air.
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