[Inyo-Mono]

We lost a woman at IBM Research, Vera Watson, on Annapurna in 1978, along with her roped partner. It was still a trauma for people when I started there in 1984.

I live in the Eastern Sierra of California, near Mt. Whitney 14,500', highest point in the lower 48 states, and I had a friend who was a local mountain guide. He died in a fall while climbing in the Andes in 1986.

[mairdie]

I have to admit that I was terrified even on hill climbing. How these people do technical climbing is beyond me.