Orsonab
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I post this as I'm sure many who come to this forum have climbed this same route, myself included:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_...brooklyn_television_editor_chihiro_cherr.html
She was the friend of a friend of mine and had only recently moved from Boston where she worked at WGBH. Though she had climbed other mountains, neither she nor her compnions had ever climbed Mt Shasta before. I suspect the route may have been very icy and a self-arrest near-impossible.
A very sad loss.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_...brooklyn_television_editor_chihiro_cherr.html
She was the friend of a friend of mine and had only recently moved from Boston where she worked at WGBH. Though she had climbed other mountains, neither she nor her compnions had ever climbed Mt Shasta before. I suspect the route may have been very icy and a self-arrest near-impossible.
A very sad loss.