The team evidently didn’t know how to perform crevasse rescue (and was the last group on the mountain that day) so they had to wait 7 hours for the park service to rescue them (seems impressively fast to me). So watch out for an upcoming blog post entitled “Please know crevasse rescue”….
One of the rangers at Muir this weekend told us that last weekend on the DC route a roped climber took a fall & dragged another ropemate into a crevasse with them - the only thing that kept the whole team from falling in was that they had clipped through one of the many pickets set along the route by the guide services. The team evidently didn’t know how to perform crevasse rescue (and was the last group on the mountain that day) so they had to wait 7 hours for the park service to rescue them (seems impressively fast to me). So watch out for an upcoming blog post entitled “Please know crevasse rescue”….
If they didn't know crevasse rescue they probably didn't know how to use an ice axe either. They were lucky.
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