This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Longs Peak tragedy tests mountaineers and park hero
Agnes Vaille died on the East Face while Walter Kiener survived severe frost bite after aiding her ascent. The rescue party, led from Timberline Cabin, recovered Vaille's body at about 18,300 feet as Kiener, later frostbitten, received medical care in Denver. The lookout station at Twin Sisters is renamed in memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jener
Twin Sisters Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park
Walter Kiener
Tahosa Valley
Longs Peak
Rockies
Agnes Vaille
Herbert Sortland
Kiener
Rocky Mountain
Tabosa Valley
Longs’ Peak
Colorado Rockies
Tahosa Kiener
Long Peak
Chasm Lake
East Gorge
Princeton
East Face
Denver
Chamber of Commerce
Colorado Mountain Club
Alps
Vaille
Elinor Eppich
Timberline Cabin
Miss Eppich
Jacob Christian
Hugh Brown
Oscar Brown
Timberline
Tom Allen
Jack Moomaw
Walter Finn
Park Rangers
Roger W. Toll
Edmund Rogers
Gorge C. Barnard
William F. Ervin
Carl Blaurock
Casey Rockwell
John Sherman
Ed Andrews
Jack Dillon
Warren Rutledge
Boulderfield
Agnes Vallle
National Park Service
Walter Sortland