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...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...
Roped together, Boyer and Miss Cedarquist got to within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more...
...boot heels. Said she: "I could hear Anne down below. At first she was just moaning. But when it got dark she began calling. . . . Night lasted a long time, but the early morning was the worst. . . ." At 10:30 that morning, sleepless Karl Boyer and the rescuers saw Anne Cedarquist waving to them from her icy ledge...
...foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe sunburn from the reflected glare of ice and snow, but, barring complications, would live for another Sunday on Shuksan...
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