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...recent years there have been almost forty fatalities on the slopes of Mount Washington. The three main causes of there accident have been: 1. the inexperience of the climbers involved: 2. severe weather conditions; 3. dangerous snow formations. In the tragedy last weekend in which Philip Longenecker and Jacques Parysko were killed, all three of these factors were combined. In hopes that the chance of future accidents may be somewhat reduced, the Mountaineering Club wishes to point out certain details concerning this mishap...
...heavy snowfall and high winds during the last week snow conditions on Mount Washington are about as dangerous now as they possibly can be. In spite of this danger Longenecker and Parysko built their igloo on the exposed floor of Tuckerman ravine directly under the towering cliffs loaded with snow ready to avalance. This was the first error in their conduct, for there are, just a short distance down the mountain from where they camped, several shelters that are in safe locations and are equipped for winter...
...When Parysko's body was found, a party of veteran climbers and members of the Mt. Washington Volunteer Ski Patrol stationed nearby began the search for Longenecker, originally believed to have escaped the avalanche...
...Parysko, 23, was a commuter and lived with his widowed mother at 3 Langdon Sq., Cambridge. He was born in France and lived there during...
Members of the University Mountaineering Club blamed Parysko's death on inexperience. They said that in his panic to get help after the snowslide, he passed by at least three emergency telephones, two first aid caches containing blankets and chemical heat pads, and the Tuckerman Ravino Ski Sholter, which, although unoccupied at the present time, is available for climbers in distress...