The Grand North Face Rescue - 1967

[wfinley]

For those who read & enjoyed the article on Jenny Lake rangers in the last alpinist here's a good insight to the NF rescue in '67:

Part I

http://ralphsclimbingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/north-face-rescue-1967.html

 

II

http://ralphsclimbingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/north-face-rescue-1967-part-ii.html

 

and III

http://ralphsclimbingblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/north-face-rescue-1967-part-iii.html

[DPS]

Pete Sinclair has a nice account of this rescue in his book "We Aspired - The Last Innocent Americans".

[Ponderosa]

A fine story and great photos - particularly, of the North Face. Also, nice to put some faces with names I've known for over thirty years.

[Gary_Yngve]

wow, it's crazy how many folks in the story were pursuing phds or were professors.

 

was that just draft-dodging, or mostly that climbing has become more mainstream since then?

[ScaredSilly]

Most of those on the rescue were dirt bags that had already served their 2 years.

 

PS I am proud to say that some of those dirt bags are good friends who I have had the privilege to share a rope with on many of occasion.

 

PSS Rumors are that there is movie documentary in the works.