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Fatality — Mount Willard, Dec 10, 2022

·Mount Willard·Mount Willard Trail

Joseph V. 'Eggy' Eggleston, 53, of Randolph, NH (a Mount Washington Cog Railway engineer) · party of 2

Eggleston and his wife — longtime NH residents and frequent hikers wearing traction devices on icy conditions — had stopped to photograph the Crawford Notch area at the Mt. Willard summit around 10:30 a.m. when he fell over a steep cliff. His wife heard him yell and saw him go over the edge; Mountain Rescue Service rappelled to locate his body about 300 feet below the summit around 2:30 p.m.

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