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FatalityOutcome: FatalFall

Fatality — Mount Washington, Jan 26, 1969

·Mount Washington

19-year-old climber · party of 3

Robert Ellenberg, 19, was killed in a climbing accident in Yale Gully in Huntington Ravine on January 26, 1969, alongside his partners Scott Stevens and Charles Yoder. All three died in the same fall.

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