[at-l] hiker death in the whites/ more info

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>From the Manchester (NH) Union Leader

"Meanwhile, in Chandler=E2=80=99s Purchase, rescuers braved rugged weather =
in the
Presidential Range to carry an injured hiker off Mount Washington. They wil=
l
also return this morning to Mount Madison to retrieve the body of a second
man stricken late yesterday. Fish and Game Sgt. Doug Gralenski said last
night that 11 conservation officers, as well as personnel from Mount
Washington State Park, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the SOLO wilderness
school and Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue were bringing a Connecticu=
t
man down from Mount Washington after he was injured in a fall near the Lake
in the Clouds hut yesterday afternoon. Robert Sanderson, 63, of Waterford,
Conn., was injured on the Ammonoosuc Ravine trail about 1:30 p.m. The weath=
er
on the Northeast=E2=80=99s highest peak was brutal, Gralenski said shortly =
after 8
p.m. =E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s very nasty,=E2=80=9D he said. =E2=80=9CThey=E2=
=80=99re in 60 mph winds, the temperature
is in the 30s, visibility is less than 100 feet and there=E2=80=99s snow an=
d rain and
ice. We=E2=80=99re in the teeth of winter-like weather.=E2=80=9D The rescue=
 crew was
expected to bring Sanderson off the mountain by 10 p.m., after carrying him
off the Ammonoosuc Ravine trail more than 2 miles. Meanwhile, the body of a
70-year-old remained on Mount Madison last night, Gralenski said, in simila=
r
weather conditions. The unidentified male, he said, collapsed or was injure=
d
about a quarter of a mile from the Madison Spring hut. The hut crew went to
the man=E2=80=99s aid but were unable to save him. The crew moved the body =
to the
hut. This morning Fish and Game conservation officers, as well as members o=
f
Upper Valley Search and Rescue and AVSAR, will bring the man off Mount
Madison via the Valley Way trail. "