Day/date: July 21, 1988 RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION FIELD INCIDENT REPORT Incident type: Falling Fatality Log number: 88-151 Date/time of incident: 7/19, pm Date/time received: 7/21, 7 am Park: Olympic Location: Bogachiel Peak Reported by: RAD, PNRO Received by: Bill Halainen, RAD, WASO Incident Summary R.M., 44, of Bainbridge Island, WA, was hiking with her three children, ages 10, 14 and 17, when she slipped and fell into a crevasse on Bogachiel Peak and became wedged between some rocks and snow. Her children were unable to extricate her, and reported the incident to rangers at the Lunch Lake Ranger Station at about 5 p.m. They were able to make it back to the scene of the incident at 7:15 p.m. R.M., who had been lightly dressed, was semi-conscious and unreactive to stimuli. It took 70 minutes to extricate her, and she stopped breathing before she was finally freed. CPR was begun and continued during a medevac flight, but R.M. never regained pulse or respiration. Her core body temperature was 68 degrees when she reached the hospital. Hypothermia has been ruled as the probable cause of death.