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Backpackers reunited with families
 | | Erica Nelson, left, and Abby Flantz, and members of their families talk with reporters from Anchorage TV stations following the rescue on June 18 of the two women, who had been missing in Denali National Park after being reported overdue six days earlier from a planned overnight outing. Photo by Scott Anderson. |
Abby Flantz and Erica Nelson were grinning from ear to ear as they disembarked the helicopter at the Denali Park airstrip at 4: 55 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, and walked into the waiting arms of their anxious families.
They were spotted earlier in the afternoon by the park’s plane, in an area north of the park boundary, about 15 miles north of where they began their hike and eight miles west of the Parks Highway. [more] |
Helping to build a playground
 | | Heidi Holcomb, a student at Talkeetna Elementary School, scrubs a tire that is part of Talkeetna's new playground. For more photos, see the Picture Gallery on our web site and check the June 12 edition of the Talkeetna Times. |
Rangers rescue fallen climber
Denali mountaineering rangers led a life-saving technical rope rescue of a fallen solo climber on Mt. McKinley the evening of June 3.
Claude Ratté, age 44, of Montreal, Québec was descending the West Buttress route from the 17,200-foot high camp to the 14,200-foot camp when he fell almost 2,000 feet down to the Peters Glacier. The climber fell from an elevation of approximately 16,400 feet down a 35- to 40-degree snow and ice slope, suffering facial trauma and a leg and ankle injury in the fall. Ratté was able to use his satellite phone to dial 911 shortly before noon on Tuesday. [more]Thompson assumes school board seat G
Big Lake resident Myrl Thompson has been appointed to fill Seat G on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board. [more]
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