| Summary: | Mountaineer, inventor, hiker and specialist in mountain rescue missions. Ome Daiber was born in 1907 and died April 2, 1989 at age 81. Topics on Part 1 include a rescue on Mt. McKinley, surveying in St. Elias range, and Clark Schurman (a Boy Scout troop leader). Subject timestamps: (00:00) discussion of climber death and lack of appropriate equipment, (3:55) 1960 Mt. McKinley rescue climb, 5 total people (including John Day and Pete Schoening) in distress, rescuers gathered from Yakima, Tacoma, Portland, principals were Ralph Johnson, Wolf [Bauer], (12:00) took a C-124 plane to McKinley, military involvement in rescue, (15:00) equipment taken to McKinley rescue, organization of rescue communication, (17:40) transport of equipment and manpower to McKinley, (21:55) detail of military air transport involvement in the rescue (24:00) Daiber’s role in rescue was operations, detail of those involved on actual mountain, (24:25) people involved “on the mountain” for the actual rescue, (25:00) Paul Cruise involved in rescue, continuation of McKinley rescue detail, (28:30) difficulties with radio communication during mountain rescue, (30:10) detail of rescue team action to move stranded hikers down the mountain, pilot death, (32:45) private Alaskan pilot (Lincoln Luckett) comes in to aid with rescue at the 17,000 foot camp, establishes communication with stranded climbers, (37:05) 1935 Arctic surveying expedition in Yukon territory near Mount St. Elias area for National Geographic, (40:05) discussion of Daiber’s ascent of Mt. Jetty during 1935 surveying expedition in the Mount St. Elias range, (43:45) first to use “oblique” aerial photo for mapping area, (45:00) April 1965 expedition climbed “pinnacle across from Mt. Kennedy”, (46:20) discussion of “telescope sights” - telescope deconstruction and repair on expedition, (54:30) discussion of friendship Clark Schurman and Boy Scouts of America involvement in Seattle with Troop 65 Part 2 is a lecture delivered in an Arctic course on mountaineering given by Ome Daiber on January 26, 1975 To request a high resolution or uncompressed reproduction, or to obtain permission to use any portion of this item, contact the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Email: photos@uw.edu. Please reference the Digital ID Number.
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