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...tour. Others in the cast were T. S. Kennan, J. R. Bird, B. W. Stevens, J. O. Ross, F. L. Spalding, and G. P. Davis. R. M. Whittemore helped complete the lyrics. For the H.D.C.'s spring production of "Hassan" F. L. Anderson did the score, while H. R. Thayer acted in the lead...
...feet, bouncing over the ice toward a sheer granite precipice. Fifty yards from the edge, Les Viereck fell into a crevasse and yanked the others to a stop. Wood was the only one able to stand up. Viereck was shaken and stunned. Argus was badly injured and Thayer was dead...
...liked it, and stayed to take his degree in geology at the University of Alaska. Drafted, he was assigned to the Army Arctic Training Center at Big Delta. Pfc. Argus climbed a lot, but nothing really big until he tried McKinley with three friends, all former fellow students: Elton Thayer, the leader, a McKinley Park ranger and experienced mountaineer; Morton Wood; pilot and homesteader, who had assaulted the peak before, but failed; Pfc. Leslie Viereck of Ladd Air Force Base...
...Razor's Edge. At 13,000 ft. they crawled down the last dangerous stretch: a razor-edged ridge of blue ice. They were roped together, with Argus leading. He was carefully cutting holds when Thayer, the last man, slipped and shot down the sIope.The other three tried to brace themselves, but they went hurtling down...
Next day a helicopter picked George Argus off the lower slopes. Wood and Viereck had gone to McKinley Park headquarters for the "toughest part" of their ordeal: telling Thayer's widow of her husband's death. She asked that no more lives be risked to recover his body, buried on the avalanche-ridden slope. "He loved mountains, and that's where he'd want to stay," she said...