European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine Fortt than 50 raw died to attempt to climb Denali or mount Mckinley now a vigilant Ranger program la doing much to make the slopes Sater. Alaska s icy Denali wilderness by Jon Athan water Man National geographic n april 20.1986. Den a Lional Park mountaineering rangers at Talkeetna Alaska received a desperate radio Call Tojo French climbers had alien into a Crevasse on North America s highest Mountain. One body had already been recovered while District Ranger Bob Seibert called a he Copler rangers Scott Gill and Fiji pm Moore rushed to a Rescue Cache of pull on climbing suits and grab emergency gear. They were flown to the site. Since 1903. Or 8,568 climbers who have attempted Denali 4.601 have reached the Summit. Fifty one climbers have died. Dozens have lost fingers and toes. They come from around the world to climb the 20,320 Coo Mountain which has the greatest Valley in Summit Rise in the world. Denali from a Tanana word moaning the Greal one is Alaska s Olli Cial name for the Mountain but the Federal government Calls it mount Uckley in 1986, the rangers registered a record breaking 755 climbers. When climbers Winve at the rangers rustic log Cabin. Gill cells them. Be Carolus up there be sure to stay roped together 50 feel apart in Case you fall into a Crevasse the climbers watch a 12-Mmute safely slide show available in free languages Tyty Ilyf inti Cra a Volb the ranges then braid ski planes Tor the a mile Ili Ghl the planes Lake them irom 300 feet above sea level in Talkeetna to the 7,200 loot glacial an strip beneath Denali. As the Mountain grew popular in the 1970s, its slopes became crowded. Accidents increased. There were scores of cases of Altitude sickness alls and frostbite. In 1976, More than 6 percent of the 600 climbers had accidents four died and the byproducts of human presence began to make their Mark on the Mountain. There were piles of garbage abandoned Spaghetti like ropes hanging from sleep pitches and focal can ram nation of Rne Snow. Climbers became sick alter drinking melted Snow. People complained about the wasting of climbers and Denali the rangers responded by 1980, they had begun regular patrols spreading he word about safely chopping fees out of the ice and rescuing injured climbers. In 9b3, plastic loiter bags to be thrown into deep crevasses were issued to every climber. Uncooperative climbers were lined $250. The Ranger presence on Onali Dales to 1913, when marry Karstens and Ihrcke other men were the first to reach the top for three chopped Steps up a 2,000 foot Section of icy Ridge that had been mangled by an Eail quake ii was Karstens who had pm Doc naturalist Charles Sheldon around the base of Donan trying to ca0le Sheldon a non climber to join him on Denali. Sheldon declined n the wilderness of Dana i Sheldon wrote of Karstens he is a Lall Stalwart Man Well poised Frank and strictly honorable and peculiarly filled by youth and experience for explorations in Little known Sheldon s writings and political lobbying wore largely responsible Lor the creation in 1917 of Muul re Mckinley National Park renamed Denali National Park and monday May 1b, 19b7 preserve in 1980which would provide internal Protection for the great Mountain and its surrounding wilderness. Of the French Accident in 19b6. Gill says the hidden Crevasse Bridge was 16 feel wide. 150 feel Long and in places 30 feet thick bul it just collapsed Benham them. I Rappel led 75 feet Down into the Crevasse and followed the Frenchman s rope digging for him it was scary Down Here with and of that ice hanging above waiting to fall
