From gendreau@holonet.net Fri Jul 21 18:46:25 EST 1995 Article: 5179 of rec.climbing Xref: news.nsw.CSIRO.AU rec.climbing:5179 Path: news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!NewsWatcher!user From: gendreau@holonet.net (Rob Gendreau) Newsgroups: rec.climbing Subject: Re: Accident near Bishop-Ca. Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 21:19:34 -0800 Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access System: 510-704-1058/modem Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <3sugrr$oi3@gap.cco.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gendreau.ip.holonet.net In article <3sugrr$oi3@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, batten@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Jeff Batten) wrote: >Anybody have any info on the climbing-hiking accident near Bishop. >I heard on the radio two people are dead? "A pair of missing rock climbers were found dead the foot Red Slate Mountain, following a helicopter search in the Mono County wild lands....Donald Lamson, 28, and Julie Romweber, 28, both of Tahoe City [California], were reported missing Monday when they failed to return froma alcimbing trip to the Big Pine area in the southern Sierra Nevada. Volunteer rescue workers and Mono County sheriff's officials found the couple's car ata trail head near Convict Lake and mounted a helicopter search for the pair at dawn Tuesday. The climbers' bodies were spotted almost immediately from the air." -- Oakland Tribune 6/30/95. -- Rob Gendreau gendreau@holonet.net