No matter how "civilised" the urban areas become, Alaska will still kill you.
Competitor Dies in Grueling Back-Country Race
The inevitable has happened in the 32-year-old Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, and 44-year-old Rob Kehrer is dead.
A 10-year veteran of what some consider the toughest wilderness challenge in the world, Kehrer died in the Tana River of Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve on Saturday after apparently launching his packraft a little too soon at the end of the lower river canyon.
Friend and traveling companion Greg Mills told
park rangers he saw Kehrer's boat disappear into a boil of cold, glacial
water from which it never emerged.
Family of missing French adventurer thinks he could be alive, hiking in Katmai park
Two family members of a French adventurer missing
in Alaska for more than two months have traveled thousands of miles in
hopes of finding some, if any, clues about his disappearance. They think
there’s a chance Francois Guenot is hiking in the area of Katmai
National Park and Preserve due to important survival items missing from
recovered belongings.
Anchorage Center controller a factor in 2013 fatal crash
In a report released today, the National
Transportation Safety Board made the unusual determination that
ambiguous directions from Anchorage Center were a factor in an accident
that occurred last year and took the lives of ACE Air captain Jeff Day
and co-pilot Neil Jensen.
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National Transportation Safety Administration investigator Brice
Banning, inspects the site of a fatal March 2013 ACE Air crash, shortly
after the accident. | NTSB |
Further, the NTSB cited the air
traffic controller for other factors, including a failure to monitor the
flight. This determination stemmed from inaction on the part of the
controller as the crew descended the aircraft below the minimum
published altitude for the approach.
... The crash, which took place about 10 miles east of
Aleknagik in Muklung Hills on March 8, 2013, was an all-cargo flight in
a Beechcraft 1900. The NTSB found the primary cause to be the flight
crew’s “failure to maintain terrain clearance which resulted in
controlled flight into terrain in instrument meteorological conditions.”
1 comment:
Ouch... Not good in either case...
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