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What would King County Search and Rescue have done about the unrecovered bodies on Mount Rainier?
Granite Mountain, near the summit of Snoqualmie Pass, is notorious for its deadly avalanches. Fred Becky's authoritative guide book warns of the avalanche danger and how to avoid it.
A couple years ago three climbers were caught in an avalanche on Granite Mountain and one was killed. He was a prominent doctor and left behind a wife and little daughter.
King County Search and Rescue tried for days to recover his body. Everyday they were exposing themselves to avalanches.
It was spring and in a few months the snow would melt and his body could be easily recovered. This is what did happen.
Why did they expose themselves day after day to extreme danger trying to recover a dead climber?
The answer is simple. Everyday his wife was at the mountain and she would tell the curious press I am not coming off the mountain till my husbands body is recovered. It was obvious she loved her husband deeply. The members of King County Search and Rescue had great compassion for her.
Unfortunately after days of searching for her husbands body they finally had to give up.
I know King County Search and Rescue took every safety precaution they could but the fact remains they were searching on the deadly avalanche side of the mountain.
Their compassion for the widow and daughter is to be greatly admired.
They were true mountaineers.
They were not liars or cowards.
Without menisis-malice.
Mountaintop Sea Ministries, International
Captain Bill Schweitzer, U.S.M.M., mountaineer, missionary
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