This Crag Rat training photo is captioned, “Man Down.” Other images in the set indicate this was a training session on Eliot Glacier. The film was processed in June 1976.
Painful reminder of how my friends, Dan Owen and Stuart Picking, died on the mountain.
James
Too bad that accidents do happen! We train on the ice every year. It’s called the Ice Follies, and that training is coming right up! With good training accidents can be minimized. And rescues can be more successful! That is the Hope"¦
nels
Do we still have crevasses like that?
nels
,Have they ever found the three climbers that got caught in a storm. One holed upwith an injury and the other two tried coming down the north side. One from NY and another from Texas if I remember correctly.
Jeff Bryant
Painful reminder of how my friends, Dan Owen and Stuart Picking, died on the mountain.
James
Too bad that accidents do happen! We train on the ice every year. It’s called the Ice Follies, and that training is coming right up! With good training accidents can be minimized. And rescues can be more successful! That is the Hope"¦
nels
Do we still have crevasses like that?
nels
,Have they ever found the three climbers that got caught in a storm. One holed upwith an injury and the other two tried coming down the north side. One from NY and another from Texas if I remember correctly.