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FatalityOutcome: FatalFall

Fatality — Mount Washington, Mar 2, 1996

·Mount Washington

50-year-old from Waterville, ME

Robert Vandel, 50, died in a ~1,000-foot fall while climbing in Huntington Ravine in March 1996.

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