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...news over Memorial Day weekend was grim but not really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...
Crowds are worse on Colorado's 14,255-ft. Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Last year some 29,000 hikers reached the top, a rise of 53% since 1990. This is a nose-to-tail wilderness experience. Permits are assigned by lottery to climb Mount Whitney, above California's Owens Valley, at 14,494 ft., the highest summit in the Lower 48 states. The limit is 50 people a day in the favored period of late summer, and by the end of April all the slots were assigned...
...services coordinator who chaired the group, was that "we should recoup costs. Rescuers are hanging their own rears out in the wind anytime they undertake a rescue. Some of these climbers need to be held more responsible." One proposal is that, beginning in 1994 at Denali and Washington's Mount Rainier, some sort of bonding arrangement be imposed on climbers to pay the cost of their own rescue (as well as of high- altitude sanitation cleanup...
...episode follows Epps' comments about Counter in January in which he placed part of the blame for the College's race relations problems with the Foundation. It may also be the escalation of an internal battle, as rumors mount that a massive overhaul of the College's race relations bureaucracy may claim the Foundation in its current form...
...revelations about the department's handling of the security controversy continue to mount, rumors run rampant about a major shake-up at the department, perhaps in the security unit. General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall is currently conducting a probe of the alleged discrimination in that unit...