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James Lee Detterline (February 28, 1956 – October 2016) was an American mountaineer, rescuer, and park ranger.He was known for having around 428 ascents of Longs Peak (the most of any person); [1] a feat for which Tom Hornbein dubbed him "Mr. Longs Peak".
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
He dedicated his life to public service as a lawyer, ranger, author, and soldier. [170] Bell wrote a book called Reminiscences of a Ranger, where he captures his experiences during the early days of Los Angeles. [171] He served in the Union Army, and participated as a filibuster in William Walker’s expedition as a soldier. [172]
A beloved National Park Service ranger died when he tripped, fell and struck his head on a rock during an annual astronomy festival in southwestern Utah, park officials said over the weekend.
Kristoffer Bryan Domeij (October 5, 1982 – October 22, 2011) was a United States Army soldier who is recognized as the U.S. soldier with the most deployments to be killed in action; at the time of his death he was on his fourteenth deployment.
In the 1930s and ‘40s the ranks were mostly filled by returning veterans attracted by the ranger corps’ quasi-military culture. Until 1978, female rangers weren’t permitted to wear the same uniform or even the same badge as the men, but instead wore skirts modeled on stewardesses’ uniforms. Park ranger or Pan Am stewardess?
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Kellogg began climbing in 1984 in the North Cascades [5] but it was not until he left the national luge team that he began to pursue mountaineering as a career. [4] He worked as a climbing ranger in Mount Rainier National Park in 1997–1998 [4] and later ran a Seattle-based construction business to support his climbs. [6]