Japanese climbers die in Yosemite

[Dan_Harris]

There were a total of 13 hikers rescued yesterday. Several were not peported missing. I solo, not reported missing, had hooked up with one reported missing. They had broken into a backcountry ranger's cabin and had ripped shutters off the windows to fashion into snowshoes but were found shortly thereafter.

[Stavrogin]

more info in the seattle times today:

 

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[salbrecher]

Lambone and I were in the lodge drinking free coffee refills and in the meadow watching the rescues. We tentativly fixed one pitch on the north america wall in the rain the first day of the storm and pulled our ropes the next day. The japanese were in a waterfall at camp 6 when the storm hit. no bivy sacs or portaledge. YOSAR yelled up to them with a loudspeaker (2 days into the storm) in japanese to scream if they wanted a rescue. In a full blown storm we could here the female scream and shout 30 or so pitches up. Within the hour the japanese started climbing up in a waterfall leaving sleeping bags at camp 6. After the storm a friend with a good scope could see the japanese's ropes fixed at the alcove a few pitches from the top and the japanese were hanging at the end of their ropes with all their gear. Dave the soloeist was one slab pitch below the top when the storm hit and his gear is still there and he is ready to go up and finish his climb. The first solo of Tempest.