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Inspector Bob'Inspector Bob' is a fictitious character personifying the trials and tribulations of adventurous souls who end up in actual news headlines because of the situations they have placed themselves in through ignorance and/or indifference. Glacier RescueDozens of rescuers swarmed to Mount Baker yesterday to rescue members of a mountain climbing party who fell into a crevasse on the Coleman Glacier, killing one climber and injuring three others.The four climbers from Vancouver, B.C., slid 100 to 200 feet before falling into the crevasse, or crack, late Sunday morning at an elevation of about 8,600 feet. They were able to get out of the crevasse, but one of the four died. A second climbing party helped them, and one of the climbers, Dale, 42, was able to walk to a spot where he could be airlifted off the mountain. He was treated at a hospital for a broken wrist and released, said a Whatcom County Sheriff's Deputy. |
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The remaining two climbers were forced to spend Sunday night on the mountain.
The most seriously hurt climber was Inspector Bob of the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, who had back and leg injuries. He was carried down the mountain on a stretcher yesterday. Climber Cheryl, also of Burnaby, suffered arm and ankle injuries. She walked down. It was unclear whether the climbers had made it to the 10,778 foot summit of the volcano before the accident occurred late Sunday morning. The two injured climbers were being evaluated last night but were in stable condition, said a nursing supervisor at St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham. The body of the climber who was killed remained on the glacier yesterday. Inspector Bob, 47, a Vancouver lawyer, just weeks ago climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa as a part of a fund raising trip for the Alzheimer Society of B.C. Participants pay their own way to the destination and pledge to raise at least $10,000 Canadian for the charity. After the climbers were able to extract themselves from the crevasse, they used a cellular phone to call for help. Three people from a nearby climbing party applied CPR to the most badly injured climber, who had stopped breathing, but were unable to revive him. Whatcom County Search and Rescue crews and personnel aboard a helicopter from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station located the group Sunday, but the chopper was unable to land because of the high altitude. Rescuers took the two seriously injured people part of the way down the mountain but camped overnight, the sheriff's office said. Low clouds and fog kept helicopters on the ground yesterday morning. More than 40 volunteers helped with the rescue. |
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