Word: mountain
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...decision the supervisor made is a routine decision taken "in cases when we know someone is on the mountain. They're not supposed to be there alone. The weather was severe--a 70 to 82 degree below zero wind-chill factor on top of the mountain. We had a moral and legal obligation to get Mr. Yates," explained Tibbs...
...Yates got more out of the weekend than he'd bargained for. He originally climbed the mountain to surpass former experiences--Mt. Rainier, Mt. Anderson in the Olympics and extensive winter camping--and prepare himself for future climbs--Mt. McKinley this summer...
...Tibbs, the park director, the park supervisor made the decision to send out the plane when he realized someone was climbing alone. Though Yates claims he was in full view and can't understand how the plane missed him, it did. Since there were no tracks leading down the mountain and since they couldn't spot him from the air, park authorities assumed that Yates was injured. It was then that they decided to call in the helicopter...
...authorities may have taken such extreme measures to find Yates because of an accident last year, when a pair of climbers illegally attempted to scale the mountain. One of the climbers fell and broke his arm. If it hadn't been for a ranger who spotted them--much as Yates was spotted--no one would have found...
...answers to the questions he has raised about who should take responsibility and how. For instance, the places in the U.S. where one can climb and no one would know or care greatly outnumber the regulated areas. Someone wanting to climb unimpeded could in any one of countless mountain ranges. At the same time, though, as Yates' case illustrates, it isn't fair that one can't climb solo in a particular area just because it happens to be nationally- or state-owned. Park land is land that the people have bought; they should be entitled to use it however...