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FatalityOutcome: FatalFall

Fatality — Mount Washington, May 8, 1976

·Mount Washington

25-year-old from Speigeltown, NY

Scott Whinnery, 25, died after a fall on Hillman's Highway in Tuckerman Ravine in May 1976.

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