Word: oeser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...T/SGT.) DANIEL M. OESER...
...trip to tragedy began last month when 22 teen-agers left Philadelphia with Wilderness Camp, a summertime hike-and-climb outfit. Led by Oliver D. Dickerson, 29, a University of Pennsylvania instructor, and William Oeser, 29, a Baltimore schoolteacher, the Wilderness Campers (at $270 a head) drove out West in a Ford station wagon and a made-over secondhand hearse, stopped in Montana's Glacier Park, then moved on to Banff, 85 miles west of Calgary, for high adventure in the Canadian Rockies...
With William Oeser to lead them, 16 of the boys started up the southwest face one morning at 11. In four hours they reached 8,500 ft., just above the snow line. Oeser, bothered by blistered feet, decided to go back down; five of the boys followed him. The remaining eleven wanted to go on, and Oeser raised no objection. Lightheartedly, they set out for the summit, 3,000 ft. above, planning to come down before nightfall...