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FatalityOutcome: FatalFall

Fatality — Mount Washington, Jun 9, 1940

·Mount Washington

19-year-old from Short Hills, NJ

Edwin P. McIntire Jr., 19, fell into a snow crevasse in Tuckerman Ravine in June 1940 — the first recorded crevasse-fall death in the ravine.

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