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Search and rescue team on horseback, Mount Rainier National Park, July 7, 1931
Order an ImageAn unroped two-man non-guided party consisting of brothers Kenneth and Robert Zinn left Camp Muir for the summit of Mount Rainier on July 4th weekend of 1931. During the ascent Robert Zinn became exhausted; sitting to rest, he began a slide of 3,400 feet, striking Nisqually Glacier. A search party headed by District Ranger Charles Browne searched in vain on July 6th, and returned on the 7th, looking into every crevasse along the line of the fall, finally finding Zinn's body in a crevasse about 75 feet above the edge of 200-foot ice cliff.
Identifications written on verso. Left to right: Pony Guide Paul Anderson, Chief Ranger John Davis, Ranger L.E. Devlin, District Ranger Charles Browne, Ranger Don Loehrke, Guide Frank Willard, Guide Bill Butler, Robert Mace, Pony Guide "Stub" Bennett.
Identifications written on verso. Left to right: Pony Guide Paul Anderson, Chief Ranger John Davis, Ranger L.E. Devlin, District Ranger Charles Browne, Ranger Don Loehrke, Guide Frank Willard, Guide Bill Butler, Robert Mace, Pony Guide "Stub" Bennett.
ID Number: 2009.16.72
Date: 1931
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Additional Information: View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv26800
Credit: MOHAI, Charles Browne Mount Rainier Park Ranger Photographs and Other Material, 2009.16.72
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