OSSIPEE — All Lizzie Bourne wanted to do was watch the sunrise over Mount Washington. Instead she died in the cold, and her spirit is said to haunt the summit.
Decades later, a Tuftonboro man died a hero on the mountain while trying to rescue two climbers.
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