Lost climbers found 38 years later

[Dru]

It could happen here too.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,961384a1561,FF.html

[chelle]

Interesting, Dru. According to my friend in the Seattle Mtn. Rescue it does happen here. At any point in time there are about 100 people classified as "missing" on Rainier. Bits of them have been spit out by the glacier, but couldn't be identified.

I think Beck was involved in a search effort on Adams a few weeks back to try and locate the bodies of some climbers from the 60's who were lost.

 

[Dru]

Beck! You could have written a book about it like Jochen Hemmleb! Take lots of corpse shots and send em to the tabloids baby. Maybe you can hire Conrad Anker for your next body discovery mission. I hear Reinhold Messner is no good at it - when he found Otzi the Iceman he tore the genitals off prying the body loose from the ice!

[Beck]

I'm sticking to writing about my good pal Teddy Rux, you might have climbed with him, Dru!

With the low snow year in the NW there was more evidence found on Mount Adams that (in)conclusively showed the last resting place of these two climbers missing from the sixties... sling made with tube socks(!!!) on a nubbin above a cliff band off the S ridge, head band, remains of (probably) tent material melting out of 'scrhrund.. but nothing at all like the evidence found in NZ... mostly the search team I was on walked around on refrigerator sized blocks of unsettled boulders as more popped off the cliff above the glacier... I think theie bodies are under 30 feet of rockfall and will not be found but the family still grieves.

[Fairweather]

Beck,

there were two climbers who dissappeared back in the early 80's on a November Adams climb of the south spur. Are these the same guys you were looking for? Some speculated that they made the summit, but walked off the ice cliff above Rusk Glacier during their descent in a storm.

[Beck]

My mistake on the decades, it was only twenty years ago so that makes it the eighties, right? (My, how time flies...)

I suspect these are the same two climbers, they found this tube sock sling above the Mazama Glacier on ridge, my beta's a bit second hand as I'm just a SAR lunkhead..."How high do I need to jump, sir?"

The sherriff's office organized a search earlier this summer as well, don't remember the names of the missing, one of the fellas there was on the original search, he thought the prevailing winds would have pushed them in the direction of the Mazama Glace, as we all know, you get pushed away from your intended direction when the winds are howlin' and the spindrift feels like needles.

Philfort might know more about the specifics, he was up on the August search as well.

[Dru]

Dig that tube sock sling idea. Freedom of the Chosspiles? i knew a guy once who had to do a "jeans rappel" - they were out hiking an followed some creek down a canyon and got to a step that was too high to jump, so they took off their jeans, tied them together, and slid down them hand over hand in their underwear.

that's one mtneering technique I have never used and hopefully never will.

[Cpt.Caveman]

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Originally posted by Beck:

My mistake on the decades, it was only twenty years ago so that makes it the eighties, right? (My, how time flies...)

I suspect these are the same two climbers, they found this tube sock sling above the Mazama Glacier on ridge, my beta's a bit second hand as I'm just a SAR lunkhead..."How high do I need to jump, sir?"

The sherriff's office organized a search earlier this summer as well, don't remember the names of the missing, one of the fellas there was on the original search, he thought the prevailing winds would have pushed them in the direction of the Mazama Glace, as we all know, you get pushed away from your intended direction when the winds are howlin' and the spindrift feels like needles.

Philfort might know more about the specifics, he was up on the August search as well.

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Hey Beck,

I think that is a pretty cool group to be a part of. Even if it is like "how high do I need to jump sir" sort of thing.

[Beck]

thanks Cavey, it's a lot more than just that, sometimes you get coffee and a doughnut if you're lucky!!!

[Cpt.Caveman]

Oh yeah and to Philibuster boy

[Dru]

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Originally posted by Beck:

thanks Cavey, it's a lot more than just that, sometimes you get coffee and a doughnut if you're lucky!!!

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Sometimes I get that much just for donating blood, and I usually lose more weight donating a pint of blood than I do running around in the mountains for a weekend! Then I add it all back with a pint of Guiness.