Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 6, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free july 1981 ice slide chased climbers to Triumph for disabled Washington Post eleven people had been buried by falling ice on the Day the second group but the climbers went to mount to prove a Point and after initial four Days of grueling work and one near disaster on their 11 men and women usually called disabled came Down from the Mountain the group arrived at the mountains shoulder to cheers and Champagne sat nine of the 11 had reached the world top of the one had waited in a Camp metres up and another had stopped in an ice Cave metres seven of the climbers Are two Are one is an epileptic and one is an most of them had done Little or no Mountain climbing before tackling mount and Only one had tried Rainier Blind climber Sheila toasts feat with the climbers arrived at the Mountain june 21 and heard the news that 11 climbers had been burled under tons of falling ice on the Mountain that i talked to my husband about it that said Henrianne Wakefield of wife of one of the Blind but you cant say to your youve got to come Home had second thoughts that but he decided he really wanted to do the Success of gaining the Summit nearly became a disaster saturday when huge pieces of ice broke Loose above two groups of the climbers and came roaring Down toward them As they tried to or slide out of the the ice broke Loose when the heat of the noon Sun softened and cracked Large pieces of ice in an area of the Ridge called disappointment near the spot where the bodies of the 11 climbers killed in the nations worst mountaineering Accident Are still entombed in ice that dropped from the glacial Roar of ice one of the teams had delayed and gone Back up to help Down another Raymond Keith of said Judith a Blind diabetic who helped organize the just As they ice from some 365 metres above broke Loose with a Roar and fell toward run a shout went up from the Camp they tried to dash but Justin Mcdevitt of tripped on his crampons and Frederick Rosier of lost his ice axe and stumbled As climbers below Franti Cally called for them to Sheila a Blind athlete from Des hearing the Roar fell on her Knees and began to Pray for her i thought i was Gonna she i heard them say and i i heard the but 1 didst know How big it the ice she within the crashing ice had stopped just 60 metres from the with their climbing rope still snagged on a Large chunk of Judith Oehler said the climb was organized after she became the first Blind person to make it through an outward bound wilderness course in Richard an guides Blind Judith Oehler along the last Kilometre of the proving that the Blind could climb rocks and make their Way in a Tough wilderness the Rainier climb was planned to show that what really handicaps people is not physical but emotional people who Are fearful or very depressed Are More Handi capped than we Oehler after we Hope employers will begin to look at people with disabilities she just before they had reached the the group had an Omen from Charles a Philadelphia area attorney who lost his left leg in received a radiotelephone with news that his wife had just Given birth to a girl and a the handicapped climbers feat was intended to celebrate the International year of the handicapped and make the Point that the disabled Are far More Able than most people the expedition went with encourage ment from the White which is to Host a reception tomorrow for the tvs Cene up Asti Wujs phi1 time i Iii v Winnipeg free press Home delivery 9570550 included in the group were Wake who Heads a radio news Sec Tion for the agriculture and Raymond an equal employment Opportunity officer for the department of health and human ser both Are Wakefield reached the Summit Fri Wakefield wife i didst know he had made it until late then on the television i heard his i see but i knew it was his and that he made it to the she correction in smarts reprinted in Sert of june 30th the Ronson fire starter 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