Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into National Parks by Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society

Author:Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society [Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781607106098
Publisher: Portable Press
Published: 2012-04-30T14:00:00+00:00

VIP RESCUERS

Volunteers at Mt. McKinley—with skills in emergency medicine, rock climbing, winter camping, and mountain rescue—help Denali National Park rangers maintain a permanent station on the 20,320-foot mountain during peak climbing season. Jennifer Dow, a medical doctor and volunteer medical director at Denali, is just one of the VIPs who go out on search-and-rescue missions and also educate the public on safety.

Another Denali VIP and an expert mountain climber, John Roskelly, participated in the rescue of three South Korean park visitors in May 1992. The three campers were out in a blinding blizzard in an area of the mountain known as the West Buttress when a snow hill collapsed and sent their campsite into a 60-foot-deep crevasse. The one member of the party who escaped the fall hiked down to the rangers’ station for help. Roskelly was the volunteer member of the rescue party who climbed down ropes to dig out one of the trapped men and then discovered the other under the snow. All members of the party made it out alive.

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