Harrowing Denali Whiteout Halts Cc Climbers From Reaching Summit
Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › July 07, 2006
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They were ready. They were sure of it. Libby Bushell, Sheldon Kerr and Nancy Calhoun had planned this day for years and trained for months.
And there they were, in the high camp at the 17,200-foot level of Denali, the highest mountain in North America. The three Colorado College students had been waiting for the weather to break on the 20,320-foot mountain, and it finally did.See the full content of this document
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Harrowing Denali Whiteout Halts Cc Climbers From Reaching Summit
They had been at the camp for two days, and when they started out, Bushell, the self-appointed reporter for the group, wrote in an e-mail to her friends:
"It was beautiful weather. We made it up to 19,400 feet when we noticed a lenticular cloud over the summit at 3:56 p.m. We're 3 hours from the summit an...See the full content of this document
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