Deaths on and around Mount Washington [10/21/2006]

1. Fredrick Strickland, age 29, of Bridlington, England, died Oct. 19, 1849, in the Ammonoosuc Ravine after losing his way down the mountain on the Fabyan Path in an early storm. 2. Lizzie Bourne, age 23, of Kennebunk, Maine, died Sept. 13, 1855 of exhaustion and hypothermia almost at the summit after an ascent in stormy weather by the Glen House Bridle Path.3. Benjamin Chandler, age 75, of Wilmington, Del., died Aug. 7, 1856 of exhaustion and hypothermia near the summit after and ascent by the Glen House Bridle Path.4. J.M. Thompson, proprietor of the Glen House, died Oct. 4, 1869 by drowning in the flooded Peabody River.5. Private William Stevens, of the U.S. Signal Service, and observer at the Weather Station, died on the summit on Feb. 26, 1872 of natural causes.6. Private William Seely, age 29 of Seneca Falls, N.Y., died from injuries sustained from a slide board accident on July 3, 1873.7. Harry W. Hunter, age 21, of Pittsburgh, Pa., died Sept. 3, 1874, near the foot of the cone of the mountain of exhaustion and hypothermia during an ascent by the Crawford Path in cold and rain. His remains were found six years later.8. Mrs. Ira Chichester, of Allegan, Mich., died July 3, 1880, when a coach overturned on the Carriage Road near the three-mile mark.9. Sewall E. Faunce, age 15, of Dorchester, Mass., was killed July 24, 1886, by the falling of the snow arch in Tuckerman Ravine.10. Ewald Weiss, age 24, of Berlin, Germany, left the Summit House on Aug. 24, 1890, to walk to Mt. Adams. He has never been found.11. William B. Curtis, age 63, of New York, died June 30, 1900, of exhaustion and hypothermia on the Crawford Path not far from the present Lakes of the Clouds Hut.12. Allan Ormsbee, age 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y., died June 30, 1900, of exhaustion and hypothermia a few hundred feet from the summit.13. Alexander Cusick, of Websterville, Vt., employee of the Cog Railway, was killed Aug. 23, 1906, while descending the railway on a slide board. 14. John M Keenan, age 18, of Charlestown, Mass., a surveyor, wandered the cone of Mt. Washington on Sept. 18, 1912, and has never been found.15.-16. Harry Clauson, age 19, of South Boston, Mass., and Jack Lonigan, age 21, of Boston, Mass., were killed Aug. 5, 1919, descending the Cog Railway on an improvised slide board made of ties.17. A woodsman named Harriman drowned in a flood of Jefferson Book while following his trap lines in November 1927.18. Elmer Lyman, of Berlin, N.H., froze to death while attempting to walk through Pinkham Notch Road, then unplowed in April 1928.19. Herbert J. Young, age 18, of Salem, Mo., died December 1, 1928, of exhaustion and hypothermia on the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail after ascending through Tuckerman Ravine.20. Daniel P. Rossiter, of Ludlow, Vt., was killed July 20, 1929, when the renovated old engine, "Peppersass," was destroyed on the Cog Railway.21. Oysten Kladstad, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was drowned in Dry River, Oakes Gulf, on a fishing trip, July 30, 1929. 22. Henry B. Bigelow, Jr., age 19, of Cambridge, Mass., was killed by a falling stone, Sept. 18, 1931, while rock climbing in Huntington Ravine. 23.-24. Ernest W. McAdams, age 22, of Stoneham, Mass., and Joseph B. Chadwick, age 22, of Woburn, Mass., froze to death Jan. 31, 1932, near the Lizzie Bourne monument while making a winter ascent by the Cog Railway route.25. Simon Joseph, age 19, of Brookline, Mass., died June 18, 1933, of exhaustion and hypothermia on the Crawford Path near the Lakes of the Clouds Hut.26. Rupert Marden, age 21, of Brookline, Mass., died Nov. 11, 1933, of exhaustion and hypothermia in Tuckerman Ravine after a climb in a snowstorm on the Lion Head Trail.27. Jerome R. Pierce, age 17, of Springfield, Vt., drowned Sept. 9, 1934, in the Peabody River, Great Gulf.28. John W Fowler, age 19, of New York City, N.Y., died April 1, 1936, from injuries suffered in a 900-foot slide down the icy cone of the east side of Mt. Washington.29. Grace M. Sturgess, age 24, of Williamstown, Mass., died May 23, 1936, as a result of injuries from falling ice in Tuckerman Ravine.30. Harry A. Wheeler, age 55, of Salem, Mass., died July 4, 1937, from a heart attack on the Caps Ridge Trail on Mt. Jefferson.31. Joseph Caggiano, age 22, of Astoria, N.Y., died Aug. 24, 1938, of exhaustion and hypothermia on the Gulfside Trail near Madison Hut after crossing the Presidential Range from Mt. Washington.32. Edwin P. McIntire, Jr., age 19, of Short Hill, N.J., was killed June 9, 1940 by a fall into a crevasse in Tuckerman Ravine.33. Louis Carl Haberland, age 27, of Roslindale, Mass., died Oct. 13, 1941, from exhaustion and hypothermia on the Caps Ridge Trail on Mt. Jefferson.34. John Neal, of Springfield, Mass., suffered a fatal injury April 7, 1943, while skiing the Little Headwall in Tuckerman Ravine.35. Phyllis Wilbur, age 16, of Kingsfield, Maine, died June 3, 1948 in the North Conway Hospital, after a skiing accident in Tuckerman Ravine on May 31, 1948.36. Paul H Schiller, of Cambridge, Mass., died May 1, 1949 while skiing on the Headwall of Tuckerman Ravine.37. Tor Staver, died Feb. 5, 1952 in Boston, Mass., of a fractured skull he suffered during a skiing accident Feb. 2, 1952, on the John Sherburne Ski Trail leading from Tuckerman Ravine to Pinkham Notch.38. Raymond W. Davis, age 50, of Sharon, Mass., died Aug. 23, 1952, of hypothermia after collapsing from a heart condition above the head wall of Tuckerman Ravine.39. Philip Longnecker, age 25, of Toledo, Ohio, died Jan. 31, 1954 of either suffocating in an avalanche or of hypothermia during a camping trip in Tuckerman Ravine.40. Jacques Parysko, age 23, of Cambridge, Mass., died Jan. 31, 1954, of hypothermia during a camping trip in Tuckerman Ravine.41. A. Aaron Leve, age 28, of Boston, Mass., was killed Feb. 19, 1956 by an avalanche in Tuckerman Ravine.42. John J. Ochab, age 37, of Newark, N.J., died Sept. 1, 1956, from a fall on Mt. Clay.43. Thomas Flint, age 21, of Concord, Mass., died June 2, 1956 from a fall and hypothermia on Mt. Madison.44. William Brigham, age 28, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was killed May 17, 1958, by an ice fall in Tuckerman Ravine.45.-46. Paul Zanet, age 24, and Judy March, age 17, of Dorchester, Mass., died July 19, 1958, of hypothermia on the Crawford Path, a quarter mile below the summit.47. Anthony Amico, age 44, of Springfield, Mass., died Aug. 22, 1959, of a heart attack near the top of Tuckerman Ravine.48. Armand Falardeau, age 42, of Danielson, Conn., died June 2, 1962, of hypothermia on the Clay Loop near the summit of Mt. Clay.49. Alfred Dickinson, age 67, of Melrose, Mass., died Sept. 12, 1962, of hypothermia near the summit of Nelson Crag.50.-51. Hugo Stadtmueller, age 28, of Cambridge, Mass., and John Griffin, age 39, of Hanover, Mass., were killed April 4, 1964, by an avalanche while climbing in Huntington Ravine.52. Remi J. Bourdages, age 38, of Spencer, Mass., died May 3, 1964 of a heart attack in Tuckerman Ravine.53.-54. Daniel E. Doody, age 31, of N. Branford, Conn., and Craig M. Merrihue, age 31, of Cambridge, Mass., were both killed March 14, 1965 after falling several hundred feet from Upper Pinnacle Gully in Huntington Ravine.55.-62. Eight people were killed Sept. 17, 1967 due to causes indirectly associated with Mt. Washington just below the Cog RRs "Sky Line Switch." 63.-65. Scott Stevens, age 19, of Cucamunga, Calif., Robert Ellenberg, age 19, of New York City, N.Y., and Charles Yoder, age 24, of Hartford, Conn., were all killed Jan. 26, 1969 from a climbing accident in Yale Gully in Huntington Ravine.66. Mark Larner, age 16, of Albany, N.Y., died Feb. 9, 1969, of injuries sustained in a short slide above tree line on Mt. Adams.67. Albert R. Tenney, age 62, died in the summer of 1969, of a heart attack between Mt. Jackson and Mt. Webster.68. Richard Fitzgerald, age 26, of Framingham, Mass., died Oct. 12, 1969, of head injuries sustained in a fall in Huntington Ravine.69.-71. Paul Ross, age 26, of S. Portland, Maine, Kenneth Ward, Jr., age 20 of Augusta, Maine, and Cliff Philips, age 25, of Island Pond, Vt., all died in a light plane crash on the southwest slope of Boott Spur on Nov. 29, 1969.72.-73. Irene Hennessey, age 47, and her husband, Thomas Hennessey, age 54, died March 20, 1971, in a light plane crash above Huntington Ravine.74. Barbara Palmer, age 47, of West Acton, Mass., died April 24, 1971, of hypothermia while hiking in deep snow near the Cog Railway Base Station.75. Betsy Roberts, age 16, of Newton, Mass., drowned Aug. 28, 1971, while attempting to cross the Dry River during Tropical Storm Doria.76. Geoffrey Bowdoin, 18, of Wayland, Mass., drowned Oct. 10, 1971, in the Dry River.77. Christopher Coyne, age 21, of Greenwich, Conn., died May 17, 1972, of a fall into a crevasse in Tuckerman Ravine.78. Richard Thaler, age 49, of Brookline, Mass., died Sept. 23, 1972, of a heart attack while hiking on the King Ravine Trail on Mt. Adams.79. Peter Winn, age 16, of Bedford, N.H., died April 21, 1973, died of head injuries sustained in a fall while skiing Left Gully in Tuckerman Ravine.80.-81. Vernon E. Titcomb, age 56, and his wife, Jean Titcomb, age 53, both of Santa Fe, Calif., died Aug. 22, 1974, when their light plane crashed above Gray Knob on Mt. Adams during a thunderstorm.82. Karl Brushaber, age 37, of Ann Arbor, Mich., died Dec. 23, 1974, of a skull fracture sustained in Tuckerman Ravine. 83. Clayton Rock, age 80, of Mass., died Oct. 23, 1975, of a heart attack near Lake of the Clouds Hut.84. Margaret Cassidy, age 24, of Wolfeboro, N.H., died March 26, 1976, from injuries suffered in a fall in Diagonal Gully in Huntington Ravine.85. Scott Whinnery, age 25, of Speigeltown, N.Y., died May 8, 1976, from injuries sustained in a fall on Hillmans Highway in Tuckerman Ravine.86. Robert Evans, age 22, of Kalamazoo, Mich., died July 12, 1976, from injuries received during a fall on the Headwall of Tuckerman Ravine.87.-88. David Shoemaker, age 21, of Lexington, Mass., and Paul Flanagan, age 26, of Melrose, Mass., died Feb. 14, 1979, during a severe winter storm, from hypothermia and injuries sustained after a fall in Huntington Ravine.89. Patrick Kelly, age 24, of Hartford, Conn., died Aug. 21, 1980, from a fall on the Headwall of Tuckerman Ravine while scrambling off trail.90. Charles Labonte, age 16, of Newton, Mass., died Oct. 12, 1980, after a fall into a brook off the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail.91. James Dowd, age 43, of Boston, Mass., died Oct. 13, 1980, of a heart attack on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail.92. Peter Friedman, age 18, of Thomaston, Conn., died Dec. 31, 1980, of a fall in Odell Gully while ice climbing in Huntington Ravine.93. Myles Coman, age 73, of Wellsville, N.Y. died Aug. 8, 1981, of a stroke on the summit of Mt. Washington.94. Albert Dow, age 29, of Tuftonboro, N.H. died Jan. 25, 1982, in an avalanche on Lions Head while searching for two lost climbers.95. Kathy Hamann age 25, of Sandy Nook, Conn., died March 28, 1982, of head injuries sustained in a fall while climbing in Connection Gully in Tuckerman Ravine.96. John Fox, age 47, of Shelburne, Vt., died May 15, 1982, from a stroke while hiking in Tuckerman Ravine.97. Edward Aalbue, age 21, of Westbury, N.Y., died Jan. 1, 1983, after a fall while scrambling in Huntington Ravine. 98. Kenneth Hokenson, age 23, of Scotia, N.Y., died March 24, 1983, after a sliding fall on the icy summit cone.99. Mark Brockman, age 19, of Boston, Mass., died March 27, 1983, after a sliding fall on the icy summit cone.100. Paula Silva, age 22, of Cambridge, Mass., died July 30, 1984, of causes indirectly associated with Mt. Washington at the bottom of the Mt. Washington Auto Road.101. Ernist Heinsoth, age 88, of Burlington, Vt., died Aug. 22, 1984, of a heart attack on the summit.102. Basil Goodridge, age 56, of Burlington, Vt., died March 15, 1986, of a heart attack on the Castle Trail on Mt. Jefferson.103. Robert Jones, age 53, of Bridgton, Maine, died April 5, 1986, of a heart attack in Tuckerman Ravine.104. McDonald Barr, age 52, of Brookline, Mass., died Aug. 24, 1986, of hypothermia in a summer snowstorm on Mt. Madison.105. Edwin B. Costa, age 39, of Manchester, N.H., died June 3, 1990, from injuries received in a fall while skiing the Second Gully on the Great Gulf Headwall.106.-108. Jimmy Fred Jones, age 33, Stewart Eames, age 27, of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Russell Diedrick, of Bedford, Texas, died Oct. 2, 1990, when their small plane crashed into the Great Gulf Headwall.109. Thomas Smith, age 41, of Montpelier, Vt., died Feb. 24, 1991, of injuries sustained from a 2,000-foot fall from the top of Odells Gully by an avalanche, while ice climbing in Huntington Ravine.110. Louis Nicholas, age 46, of Rochester, N.H., died Jan. 22, 1992, of hypothermia while descending from the summit.111. George Rimini, age 65 of Efland, N.C., died Aug. 12, 1992, of a heart attack at the junction of the Lion Head and Alpine Garden Trails.112. Derek Tinkham, age 20, of Saunderstown, R.I., died Jan. 15, 1994, of hypothermia on Mt. Jefferson.113.-114. Eric Lattey, age 28, of Riverdale, N.J., and Monroe Couper, age 40, of Orange, N.J., died Feb. 26, 1994, of hypothermia during an emergency bivouac atop Pinnacle Gully in Huntington Ravine.115. Cheryl Weingarten, age 21, of Hewlett, N.Y., died May 1, 1994, of injuries sustained in a fall into a snow crevasse on the Tuckerman Ravine Headwall.116. Sarah Nicholson, age 25, of Portland, Maine, died June 4, 1994, after being hit by a large piece of falling ice in Tuckerman Ravine.117. Ronald Hastings, age 63, of Grantham, N.H., died from cardiac arrest while visiting the summit on Oct. 8, 1994. 118. Christopher Schneider, age 31, of Pittsfield, Vt., died March 28, 1995, from injuries sustained in a fall while skiing in Tuckerman Ravine.119. Alexandre Cassan, age 19, of Becancour, Quebec, Canada, died Jan. 5, 1996, from being swept into trees by an avalanche on the abandoned Old Lion Head Winter Route.120. Donald Cote, age 48, of Haverhill, Mass., died Feb. 2, 1996, from injuries when he slipped or tripped and fell 350 feet from atop Lion Head.121. Robert Vandel, age 50, of Waterville, Maine, died March 2, 1996, of injuries sustained fro a 1000 ft. fall while climbing in Huntington Ravine.122. Nicholas Halpern, age 50, of Lincoln, Mass., died Feb. 26, 1996, of hypothermia after he lost his way in a storm on Mt. Eisenhower.123.-124. Todd E. Crumbaker, age 35 of Billerica, Mass., and John Wald, age 35, of Cambridge, Mass., died March 24, 1996, in an avalanche while skiing in the Gulf of Slides.125. Stephen Carmody, age 29, of Danbury, Conn., died from a fall into Tuckerman Ravine while descending the Tuckerman Ravine Trail in wet weather on Sept. 27, 1997.126. John Gringas, age 44, of Meriden, Conn., died May 29, 1999, from a cardiac arrest on the summit.127. Douglas Thompson, age 66, of Hanover, N.H., died Oct. 30, 1999, from a cardiac arrest while hiking near the summit of Mt. Madison.128. David McPhedran, age 42, of Kent Hill, Maine, died Feb. 20, 2000, in an avalanche in the Gulf of Slides.129. Ned D. Green, age 26, of Worwick, Mass., died Feb. 18, 2001, from injuries sustained from a 600 foot fall when solo ice climbing Damnation Gully in Huntington Ravine.130. Hillary Manion, age 22, from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, died on June 3, 2001, from a fall onto rocks while skiing The Chute in Tuckerman Ravine.131. Louise Chaput, age 52, of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, died Nov. 15, 2001, from injuries indirectly associated with Mt. Washington at the bottom of the Glen Boulder Trail.132. A Boy Scout trip leader died from a sudden cardiac arrest on July 22, 2002, 200 feet up from the start of the Crawford Path.133. Peter Busher, age 71, of Chester Gap, Va., died Sept. 11, 2002, from hypothermia while trying to hike across the Presidential Range on the Gulfside Trail in a freezing rain storm.134. William Callahan, age 57, of Meansville, Ga., died Sept. 29, 2002, from a cardiac arrest on the summit.135.-136. Thomas Burke, age 46, of Springfield, N.H., and Scott Sandburg, age 32, of Arlington, Mass., died Nov. 29, 2002, in an early season avalanche when attempting an ice climb on the Tuckerman Ravine Headwall.137. Jason Gaumond, age 28, of Southbridge, Mass., died Jan. 30, 2004, from a fall in Huntington Ravine while trying to descend the Huntington Ravine Trail.138. Rob Douglas, age 39, of Vershire, Vt., died March 7, 2004, from a fall in Pipeline Gully on Mt. Clay. He fell while attempting to descend an icy ski gully to help a fellow skier who was injured in a fall down the same gully.139. Jean Moreau, age 50, of Becancour, Quebec, Canada, died Aug. 4, 2006, from a cardiac arrest on the Davis Path near its intersection with the Camel Trail. (SOURCE: N.H. Division of Parks and Recreation, Mount Washington State Park)