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The Mount Cleveland Five: 188 Days Buried on Glacier National Park's Highest Peak | Disaster Strikes

Podcast: The Crux True Survival Stories · The Crux True Survival Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-07-02

In late December 1969, five accomplished young mountaineers set out to make history on Glacier National Park's highest peak—a 4,000-foot wall of rock and ice that had never been climbed in winter. They were skilled, prepared, and determined. When they failed to return, a desperate search began in brutal conditions, with windchills plunging to minus forty-four degrees. What searchers eventually found would mark the worst mountaineering disaster in Glacier's history—and leave questions that linger to this day. This is the story of the Mount Cleveland Five, and the families, rescuers, and fellow climbers whose lives were forever changed. 00:39 Disaster Strik...