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The 1967 Mount McKinley disaster occurred in July 1967 when seven climbers died on Denali (then still officially known as Mount McKinley) while attempting to descend from the summit in a severe blizzard estimated to be the worst to occur on the mountain in 100 years. [1]
1967: The 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; Seven members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition perish, while stranded for ten days near the summit, in what has been described as the worst storm on record. Up to that time, this was the third worst disaster in mountaineering history in terms of lives lost. [89]
In 1967, the park was the site of one of the deadliest mountaineering accidents in the United States with the Mount McKinley disaster, where seven climbers died in an intense blizzard on Denali. The Park Service debated closing the mountain to climbing in the wake of the accident, but ultimately it remained open. [9]
0–9. 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster; 1936 Eiger climbing disaster; 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; 1970 Mount Everest disaster; 1971 Cairngorm Plateau disaster
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Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest (1 C, 47 P) F. ... List of mountaineering disasters in North America by death toll * 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; A. Philip ...