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.