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"Interview about rescue work & mountain camps mt. rainier - training of the military"

"Interview about rescue work & mountain camps mt. rainier - training of the military"

Interview about rescue work and mountain camps on Mount Rainier. Mountain rescue worker being interviewed mentions legendary mountaineers, the Whittaker twins (Jim and Lou), being rescued off Mount Rainier after Lou Whitaker became paralyzed in his back and hip and “had to have direct aid by rope coming down this ice wall by Dee Molenaar”.

Jim Whittaker is the co-founder of REI and the first American to scale Mount Everest. Both Whittaker twins worked in mountain rescue work in the Cascades of Washington State, were guides on Mount Rainier and were instructors for the US Army’s renowned 10th Mountain Division.

Dee Molenaar is another famed mountaineer, who was also an author and artist. Molenaar was part of the 1953 K2 expedition with Pete Schoening and has climbed Mount Rainier more than 50 times. He died at the age of 101 in 2020.

Folk songs; Murray Morgan listening to KMO radio news and typing

Folk songs; Murray Morgan listening to KMO radio news and typing

Note: Former tape splicing broke and was repaired during this section 3 times. Digital editing was used to create a single track as originally intended.

Full-track mono, 7.5 ips
Woman/girl playing guitar and singing various folk songs:
1963 French song “Dominique”
“Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore”
Instrumental

Full-track mono, 3.75 ips

Murray Morgan uses his typewriter while listening to local radio news on KMO (recording likely in December 1965 based on news items and Christmas music being played).
Some topics on the news program

  • Eddie Ray Lincoln being shot/killed by police.
  • A missing student pilot out of Spokane that was en route to Moses Lake
  • Electrical Workers Union strike
  • English professor George Bluestone leaving the University of Washington for Hollywood.
  • Qantas orders Boeing 747 jetliners.
  • Coast Guard searches Chinese ship in Tacoma after caller says there was a bomb aboard. The explosive was never found.
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