December 2006 Archives
5:54 PM Fri, Dec 29, 2006 | Permalink
Pat Dooris
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By Pat Dooris
12/29/06
There's one story we did not tell during the rescue attempts for three climbers on Mt. Hood.
But we tried.
In the midst of the worst weather yet on Mt. Hood, Oregon, the brother of stranded mountain climber Kelly James proclaimed to the world that he and his family ha...
9:34 AM Mon, Dec 18, 2006 | Permalink
Teresa Bell
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The following are updates from a news conference regarding the ongoing search for two missing climbers on Mt. Hood. The third climber's body was found on the mountain Sunday.
9 a.m. Monday
According to Hood River County Sheriff Joe Wampler:
The two climbers who have not yet been found were in an extremely dangerous, unstable area with a 2,500 foot precipice; authorities believe the men may have fallen.<...
3:08 PM Sun, Dec 17, 2006 | Permalink
Teresa Bell
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The following is a blog from climbing expert Joe Whittington, who climbed Mount Hood for the first time in 1978 and has continued to summit Oregon's tallest peak every year since, in addition to leading countless climbs across the globe, through his Portland-based company, Oregon Peak Adventures:
It is a major dissappointment that the searchers found an empty snow cave. Typically the last piece of gear an alpine climber will leave beh...
12:32 PM Thu, Dec 07, 2006 | Permalink
Pat Dooris
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The location where searchers found James Kim's body is roughly eight miles south of the location where the Stivers and Higginbotham families got stuck for two weeks near the end of March 2006.
Peter Stivers and his wife, Marlo Hill-Stivers hiked out and found help after searchers called off their efforts to find...
12:23 PM Thu, Dec 07, 2006 | Permalink
Pat Dooris
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Covering the Kim Story
By Pat Dooris 12/07/06
I spent two days in Southern Oregon covering the story of James and Kati Kim and their daughters.
Like everyone else---it breaks my heart the way it all ended.
Often when we go on these stories we know there's a chance they could end badly but we ho...
