6 - The Greatest Tragedy. Mount Rainier National Park.

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mt. Rainier has been the site of more than 400 recorded deaths since it was established as a National Park in 1899. Tragedy is no stranger of the glaciated peak with causes of death including climbing accidents, falls, avalanches, murder and suicide. However this 75 year old accident still holds the solemn title for the single greatest tragedy in the history of the park. Strap in and hold on tight as Danielle talks us through the Curtis Commando R5C crash of 1946.

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0:40.6	Welcome back everybody to National Park after dark episode 6.
0:44.9	Episode 6. How are we at episode 6 already? I don't know. It's times flying by and I'm excited
0:54.2	because my list of what I want to do grows every single week. I already know what I want to do
1:00.5	for the next two episodes. Yeah, I think you have me a little beat but I have my next two episodes
1:08.2	that are I just found these really cool stories so I'm stoked to tell them.
1:13.6	All right, so for today I think we're just going to jump right in and for this week's episode
1:21.6	I decided to do a local story here in Washington and I am going to do the greatest tragedy
1:30.0	Mount Rainier has ever seen and it happened in the 1940s so we're taking it back a little bit.
1:37.9	I really wanted to do Pacific Northwest theme this week. Yeah, I think it's about time that the
1:44.0	PNW makes its appearance on our show. Yes, it's been kind of overdue six episodes in
1:50.4	feeling I'm doing it to serve. Yeah, but not for me. Yeah, it's time for a share.
1:56.6	Okay, so here we are. Mount Rainier has been the site of more than 400 recorded deaths since
2:03.8	it was established as a national park in 1899. Tragedy is not really a stranger of this
2:10.0	glaciated peak with causes of death including climbing accidents, falls, avalanches, murder and
2:16.8	suicide. However, out of all of these causes of death 75 years later after the incident,
2:23.8	the aviation accident that killed 32 US Marines remains the single greatest tragedy in the
2:29.4	history of the park. So today I'm going to tell you the story of the Curtis Commando R5C crash of
2:35.9	1946. Oh, I have not heard of this before or minus the little tidbits of saying that you wanted
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