Climbing and Running
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Tragedy on the Mountain
June 5, 2011 by Mitch Lewis · 2 Comments
“Falling!!!”. When I heard this word shouted from my climbing companion who was falling downhill headfirst into a massive crevasse on Mt. Baker in September 2006, I had a couple of seconds to get my ice-axe jammed into the ice above me into a classic self-arrest position that we had just learned a few days [...]
Mount Baker Glacier Mountaineering Course
June 3, 2006 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
This was the first true mountaineering experience I had. We spent six days climbing and learning how to self arrest, got lowered into a massive crevasse and had to get rescued or get out by oneself and generally was the first taste of all that is good and hard in climbing.
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