Show INJURED S. S II L. L II PEAK CLIMBER RESCUED WHERE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON HAZARDOUS CRAG x as r ri i 4 b b H H 4 v s 4 Y i it y t l 6 d' d f c s r. r 0 4 it I a i I 4 1 T if r l 4 f y v s x w f j iI M h k n. n i f AA K y r PICTURE BEST TELLS OF PERILS SLOW WORK OF RESCUING CLIMBER Telegram s staff lilal photos photo by Carl Reynolds Roger Carney being lowered from ledge dots sh ow course of fall cross shows where he landed Men Descending Perilous Cliff Carrying O Victim r Young Man Lies Helpless for 18 Hours flours s on Ledge ge After B Breaking Ankle Ankle j in Tumble on Ol l Mountain 2 The rescue party bearing Roger Carney from the thc summit of Mount Olympus reached Salt Lake City late Friday afternoon and took Carney to St. St Marks Mark's hospital By FRED HAMLIN ILIN His left ankle shattered Roger Carney 24 of 43 Fifth East street was being half carried half 10 lowered ered down the north side of perilous Mount Olympus Friday after lying helpless for 18 hours on a ledge near the top o of the foot peak At places the makeshift stretcher on which the mountain climber lay had to be lowered straight down over foot precipices Have to to Tick Pick Way Ray The rescuers had to pick their way over hazardous shale shaIe around arund big boulders through crevices and wind through dense underbrush Progress was painfully slow and y yards per 10 minutes was about the rate At the foot of the mountain mou mountain t in Carneys Carney's Carneys Carney's Carneys Carney's Car Car- ney's mother Mrs Dan D. D s. s Carney wait waiters waited She dr She p an an night ll 1 vigiL of Son A tel telegram gram reporter who wh was with the first party to reach her marooned marooned marooned ma ma- son conveyed the Information information tion Uon he was safe The first words Carney said when rescuers reached him at 6 a. a m. m were jIs j. j Is mother word worried d Z Im I'm all right The first group of rescuers in including including including in- in a a. a Telegram reporter and photographer Deputy Cheriff Elmer Elmer Elmer El El- mer Savage Jerry Lunnen former University of Utah football player Hugh Brayton Wight a companion of ot t the e injured man during during during dur dur- ing the ill-fated ill climbing expedition expedItion expedition tion Phil Aldridge Clarence Scheib and Robert Rapp Happ reached Carney after an night all hike Wight 24 24 son of ot Dr and Mrs R. R E. E Wight Fifteenth East street left Carney on the ledge and went for help after he jand and the other climber Harold Rapp 23 of ot Twelfth East street did whitt they could to make their friend r end comfortable com com- Phones r Parents rents rents' Wight telephoned ned his par parents and the sheriffs office when he completed completed completed com com- the descent nt late Thursday afternoon Night had fallen before the first searchers led by Deputy Sheriff R. R C. C Jackson got far up the moun moun- The party fought a losing Battle through ugh the darkness failing falling to get more than two miles from the marooned ma ma- marooned i Carney and Rapp The latter had elected to stay with the injured climber while Wight sought help J JAt At a. a m m. fearing Wight might 1 have been Injured Rapp left Carney beside a fire on the ledge and started started start start- ed down the mountain Meets Party i ij 1 j Halfway down he met the party including Deputy Savage and The i Telegram men and guided them to Ji Carney r The trip to the ledge brought thor t rescuers close to death many times They were forced to scalo the the tho south side ide of ot the peak up almost lr perpendicular walls waIls over over loose shale and through narrow narroW- crevices crevice Once at the top the they j scrambled anible Continued on P Pas Pare K Fourteen Column Five |