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The ravine is named after botanist Edward Tuckerman who studied alpine plants and lichens in the area in the 1830s and 1840s. According to the New England Ski Museum, the first recorded use of skis on Mount Washington was by a Dr. Wiskott of Breslau, Germany, who skied on the mountain in 1899, while the first skier in Tuckerman Ravine was John S. Apperson of Schenectady, New York, in April 1914.
Tuckerman Ravine: Washington [5] Phyllis Wilbur: June 3, 1948: 16 Maine: Injuries sustained from fall while skiing Tuckerman Ravine: Washington [5] Paul Schiller: May 1, 1949: Unknown Massachusetts: Fall while skiing on Headwall Tuckerman Ravine: Washington [5] Tor Staver: February 2, 1952: Unknown Norway: Injuries sustained from fall while ...
Tuckerman Ravine is particularly popular in the spring, when the sun begins to soften the snow. On some days, hundreds of skiers and snowboarders make the 3-mile (5-kilometer) hike to the ravine ...
Storm clouds moving over the summit of Mount Washington and Tuckerman Ravine. Rescue operations began around 8:30 p.m. — and by 11 p.m., there were nine highly skilled rescuers on the summit.
The Tuckerman Ravine Trail is the most popular trail in the notch, ascending to the summit via the headwall of Tuckerman Ravine. [34] The Huntington Ravine Trail is widely considered the most difficult trail in New Hampshire, making its way up the precipitous headwall of neighboring Huntington Ravine, where there are several rock climbing ...
The 20 year old fell at Tuckerman Ravine while skiing in difficult conditions, officials say.
The most common hiking trail approach to the summit is via the 4.1-mile (6.6 km) Tuckerman Ravine Trail. It starts at the Pinkham Notch camp area and gains 4,280 feet (1,300 m), leading straight up the bowl of Tuckerman Ravine [48] via a series of steep rock steps that afford views of the ravine and across the notch to Wildcat Mountain.
Matt's most renowned feat came on April 16, 1939, when in the Third "American Inferno", a top-to-bottom race of Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, he "schussed" (skied straight downhill without turning) the steep and infamous Headwall. His time for the 4-mile (6.4 km) race was 6 minutes 29.2 seconds, with an estimated top ...