Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years there have been almost forty fatalities on the slopes of Mount Washington. The three main causes of there accident have been: 1. the inexperience of the climbers involved: 2. severe weather conditions; 3. dangerous snow formations. In the tragedy last weekend in which Philip Longenecker and Jacques Parysko were killed, all three of these factors were combined. In hopes that the chance of future accidents may be somewhat reduced, the Mountaineering Club wishes to point out certain details concerning this mishap...
...heavy snowfall and high winds during the last week snow conditions on Mount Washington are about as dangerous now as they possibly can be. In spite of this danger Longenecker and Parysko built their igloo on the exposed floor of Tuckerman ravine directly under the towering cliffs loaded with snow ready to avalance. This was the first error in their conduct, for there are, just a short distance down the mountain from where they camped, several shelters that are in safe locations and are equipped for winter...
According to Coach Graham Taylor, the team has been hampered by a lack of snow, and accordingly a lack of practice. He has been unable to pick his best eight men, because he has had no basis for comparison of his candidates...
...insisting, shaking the bed back and forth. In the other room, another man was shoving the furniture into a corner, and stood poised, about to throw a dirty tarpaulin over the collection. It was eight in the morning and, bleary-eyed and protesting, Mockmouse was sent out into the snow with what books he could collect...
They also believed that if the two climbers had built their igloo in a more favorable location, the tragedy would have been averted. They said that the igloo was constructed on the exposed floor of Tuckerman's Ravine, directly below the cliffs loaded with snow with snow ready to avalanche...