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FatalityOutcome: FatalFalling ice

Fatality — Mount Washington, May 23, 1936

·Mount Washington

24-year-old from Williamstown, MA

Grace M. Sturgess, 24, was killed by falling ice in Tuckerman Ravine in May 1936.

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