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From: Name Omitted
Subject: Crevasse fall Mt. Baker
Hey there,
Had an "exciting" time yesterday...
I fell into a crevasse on Mt. Baker yesterday about 4:30am. I was
leading our group and as I tried to jump over the crevasse, my feet
punched through the platform I was standing on and I fell about 45 feet
down upside down into the crevasse, hitting my head on the wall of the
crevasse on the way down. My chest harness brought me upright and I
thankfully was caught by my all women rope team. The next person on the
rope got dragged about 15 ft.
from the edge of the crevasse. Luckily the team that just jumped the
crevasse in front of me was a training group for Bellingham Mountain
Rescue.
They helped pull me up with a rope on each side of the crevasse, which
was helpful because the fall had deeply entrenched the climbing rope
into the snow. It took about 45 minutes to get me out. I was very calm
the entire time and even had a radio to communicate with the team up
above. Exciting, but I don't feel I need to do that again....
The attachment is the photo I took from down in the crevasse. You can
see the entrenched rope and the two rectangles to the left where my feet
punched through. I don't think the photo does justice to how far down I
was or to the overhanging snow at the lip, however. I tried to take a
photo looking down, but my camera wouldn't focus on "infinity and
beyond" I guess.....
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