Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Parysko ran by three emergency telephones because he knew that they connected only with the Appalachian Mountain Club camp at the base of the mountain, staffed during normal ski hours. He passed the telephones at night. We cannot say if he knew, or discovered, that the Teuckerman Ravine Shelter was unoccupied. Certainly he passed the two first aid caches simply because it was not aid for himself he sought, but help for his snow-buried companion...
...avalanche had occurred, and Playsko had miraculously escaped without being buried, the handicap of his inexperience immediately became apparent. In descending the mountain for help he passed by no less than three emergency telephones, two first aid caches containing blankets and chemical heat pads, and the Tuckerman Ravine ski Shelter which, although unoccupied at the present time, is available for climbers in distress. The final irony of fate is that he dies just a few yards beyond the Spur Cabin of the Harvard Mountaineering Club where people were staying at that time...
...Thule, Greenland, on the icecap." Lieut. Ehlert explained how this pinpoint got there: "My pilot and I are a crew for an F94 Starfire interceptor stationed at Thule. We were going through the final test of our survival training by living for two days in a snow and ice shelter that we had built, using the equipment that we carry in our survival kits, which are strapped to our parachutes...
...After finishing our shelter, we crawled into our hole in the ice and prepared our sleeping bags. For a comfortable and warm night while sleeping on a block of ice, it's advisable to place as much available insulation as possible between the bag and the ice. I remembered that I had brought along an issue of TIME, and the captain suggested that we use it, page by page, spread out beneath our sleeping bags. I didn't like this idea because I hadn't finished reading the entire copy. We compromised by using the pages that...
...This procedure proved to be most satisfactory. The two nights were spent most comfortably, thanks to TIME, and we were able to catch up on current affairs, even though we were living in a very small shelter, about 800 miles from the North Pole with a real cool minus 38 degrees temperature...