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RescueOutcome: Rescued by SARFall

Rescue — Mount Washington, ~2001

·Mount Washington·Tuckerman Ravine

Jonathan Lee, 27, and Jessamin Ming-Kay Ng, 24, Harvard graduate students · party of 2

In April 2001 (exact date not documented), Harvard graduate students Jonathan Lee, 27, and Jessamin Ming-Kay Ng, 24, were glissading down the Tuckerman Ravine headwall on Mount Washington when they dropped about 25 feet into a crevasse. A rescue team spent most of the night hauling them out and lowering them down the mountain. Lee suffered a ruptured spleen, damaged liver, and fractured ribs; Ng fractured her pelvis and both ankles.

What we can learn

U.S. Forest Service Snow Ranger Marianne Leberman, quoted in SKI Magazine: 'What got them into trouble was they didn't know the terrain... Glissading is a fun thing to do as long as you know what's below you.'

Contributing factors

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