Author: James Mason
James Mason, a custom furniture builder, skier, hiker, and Appalachian Trail maintainer, lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with his wife, Dayle. Jim has served on the Dartmouth Outing Club's Safety/Risk Management Advisory Committee since it was founded in 1980 and is currently the safety officer of the UVWRT. Learn more at uvwrt.org.
Day Four: A rescuer’s account of a hiker’s baffling survival
This story was originally published in the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of Appalachia Journal. On a chilly night in early May 2009, the pager sounded. New Hampshire Fish and Game (NHFG) summoned our Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team (UVWRT) to assist with a search. A man in his 60s was missing on or around Franconia Ridge […]