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How the Historic First Helicopter Rescue of Climbers in the Rockies Went Down

Summary by Gripped Magazine
On the morning of Aug. 22, 1966, Wally McPhee was reviewing climbing registrations at the Lake Louise warden office when he noticed that Brian Greenwood and Charlie Locke, two experienced Calgary climbers, were reported on the unclimbed east face of Mount Babel. Concern grew when they failed to return on schedule. McPhee sent Jay Morton to search for the climbers with binoculars and alerted the Banff warden office. Morton reported seeing the cli…
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Gripped Magazine broke the news in on Friday, February 20, 2026.
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