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The worst mountaineering accident on Mount Rainier occurred in 1981, when ten clients and a guide died in an avalanche/ice fall on the Ingraham Glacier. [111] This was the largest number of fatalities on Mount Rainier in a single incident since 32 people were killed in a 1946 plane crash on the South Tahoma Glacier. [112]
Wartime photo, USAAF. The Curtiss C-46 Commando was a transport aircraft originally derived from a commercial high-altitude airliner design. It was instead used as a military transport during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces as well as the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps under the designation R5C.
In the late 1950s Unsoeld was a leading climbing guide in the Grand Teton Mountains.He climbed Mt. Rainier over 200 times. [6]Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein ascended Everest's difficult West Ridge route in May 1963, on a National Geographic Society sponsored expedition while Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad followed Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s South Col route established during their 1953 climb.
The snowcapped peak of Mount Rainier, which towers 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) above sea level in Washington state, has not produced a significant volcanic eruption in the past 1,000 years.
Deaths on Mount Rainier (1 P) N. Mountaineering deaths in Nepal (4 C, ... List of mountaineering disasters in North America by death toll * 1967 Mount McKinley ...
List of United States tornadoes in April 2012; List of United States tornadoes from October to December 2012; Tornado outbreak sequence of March 18–24, 2012; List of United States tornadoes from May to June 2012; List of United States tornadoes from July to September 2012; 2012 Tropical Storm Debby tornado outbreak; 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche
In 2015, an ice cave collapsed in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, killing one and injuring four others. In 2010, an 11-year-old girl died when struck by an ice boulder near the same ...
Each episode was broken into several segments: "It Did Happen", a segment that talked about similar disasters happening in other parts of America (or even earlier in the target city featured); "When It Happens/How It Would Happen", which talked about how the disaster would unfold; and a third segment about how to prepare for the disaster, and interviews with residents in the threatened areas ...