*** Climbing Fatalitites in Mono County, CA ***

Fri Jun 30 22:08:58 1995
Message : #28175331    From: Rob Gendreau
Address : gendreau@holonet.net
Group   : Usenet.rec.climbing
Length  : 145 words
Subject : Re: Accident near Bishop-Ca.
Org.  : HoloNet National Internet Access System: 510-704-1058/modem

In article <3sugrr$oi3@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, batten@seismo.gps.caltech.edu
(Jeff Batten) wrote:

>Anybody have any info on the climbing-hiking accident near Bishop.
>I heard on the radio two people are dead?

"A pair of missing rock climbers were found dead the foot Red Slate
Mountain, following a helicopter search in the Mono County wild
lands....Donald Lamson, 28, and Julie Romweber, 28, both of Tahoe City
[California], were reported missing Monday when they failed to return
froma alcimbing trip to the Big Pine area in the southern Sierra Nevada.
Volunteer rescue workers and Mono County sheriff's officials found the
couple's car ata trail head near Convict Lake and mounted a helicopter
search for the pair at dawn Tuesday. The climbers' bodies were spotted
almost immediately from the air." -- Oakland Tribune 6/30/95.

Rob Gendreau
gendreau@holonet.net

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