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Body recoveryOutcome: FatalFall

Body recovery — Mount Washington, May 1, 1994

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21-year-old from Hewlett, NY

Cheryl Weingarten, 21, died after falling into a snow crevasse on the Tuckerman Ravine Headwall on May 1, 1994. Her body was recovered by an NH Fish and Game diver lowered into the crevasse — a case later central to a (dismissed) lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service.

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