Word: wetterhorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of us got to talking last night about the rescue of the U.S. Army plane survivors off that ledge of the Wetterhorn [TIME...
...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...
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