Very good and detailed article on a hiking trip gone wrong and the subsequent rescue. These 2 people made many mistakes and had they not been fortunate to encounter some other hikers, the final outcome may of been much worse.
Robert Okey and his brother John Okey, who was visiting from England, had been looking forward to climbing up through Ape Cave — and they weren’t worried about a little bit of snow.
Before the day was over, however, the brothers found themselves soaked, exhausted and chilled to the core. It took the efforts of a well-prepared group of fellow hikers and the skills and equipment of an experienced mountain rescue team to get them safely home again.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
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