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FatalityOutcome: FatalHypothermia

Fatality — Mount Washington, Jun 30, 1900

·Mount Washington·Crawford Path

29-year-old, first WMNF trip · party of 2

Allan Ormsbee, 29, pressed on with his more experienced partner William B. Curtis into a June gale while hiking up to the AMC summit meeting on Mount Washington. Ormsbee died a few hundred feet below the summit. The deaths prompted the Lakes of the Clouds shelter the following year (1901).

Contributing factors

Ignored forecastInadequate clothing
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