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FatalityOutcome: FatalFall

Fatality — Mount Washington, Dec 31, 1980

·Mount Washington

18-year-old from Thomaston, CT

Peter Friedman, 18, died after a fall while ice climbing in Odell Gully, Huntington Ravine, on New Year's Eve 1980.

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