Posted on 10/21/2005 3:13:19 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
Body Of WWII Airman Removed From Sierra Glacier
POSTED: 11:17 am PDT October 19, 2005 UPDATED: 10:48 am PDT October 20, 2005
FRESNO -- A glacier-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed into the Sierra Nevada in 1942 was flown off the mountain and into a Fresno laboratory for identification, the county's deputy coroner said Thursday.
Blustery conditions kept rangers at Kings Canyon National Park from reaching the frozen remains for two days after two ice climbers reported last weekend they had seen a man's head, shoulder and arm protruding from the thick ice.
About 80 percent of the body was buried in the glacier on the side of the 13,710-foot Mount Mendel. The remote wilderness area can only be reached by hiking two or three days, or by helicopter when the weather allows, rangers said.
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I'm pretty well versed with the Mallory & Irvine story, but the guy I was referring to was some eccentric who dissappeared and his corpse got caught up in a glacier. Other climbers have reported seeing it at different places and times since. Mallory's body has been stationary, resting in the same spot he fell in 1924.
Maurice Wilson - 1934.
Stillwater State Forest, in Montana, has a marked grave in it. I doubt anyone has been to it in years, but it is on a map.
The story is that 3 trappers were sneaking into the recently established Glacier Natl Park for unlimited, unhindered trapping. One of the three died in route and was buried in the Stillwater Forest. I went to find it once, with my wife, but we were chased off by a Grizzlie.
Many bodies remain on Everest and are seen regularly. The effort to get them out is tremendous and they are usually left as memorial to their efforts.
They probably flew into the side of Mendel and tumbled to the glacier below.This is VERY steep terrain. As for crevasses, they are probably not an issue as the Mendel glacier is very small.
I should add to my above post that the body should also have some rank insignia on it which should also help pin him down.
Most of the WWII flights will have some paper trail listing everyone aboard but sometimes you've got the extra unrecorded passenger.
Following the assumption that he's from the AT-7 crash---and not a different one--- I went to Joe Baugher's amazing website and tried to find the serial number/info with an AT-7 search but evidently Joe didn't have anything on this one
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