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Three Climbers Die? and One Survives on Ranrapalca Ascent
A Peruvian ascent by an Iowa Mountaineering Club party ends in disaster as Roger Whitney falls headlong and Tom Heim is swept away while Stuart Turner and Bob struggle to lower the rope. The narrator, the first woman to climb Ranrapalca, survives a harrowing crash after using an ice axe to arrest a fatal slide.
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Evado Ranrapalca
Stuart Turner
Logan
Utah
Bob
Roger Whitney
Colorado Springs
Colo
Roger
Tom Heim
Santa Fe
N. M
Tom
Iowa Mountaineering Club
Stuart
Ranrapalea
Ames
Iowa
Ranapalea