Campton Public
Library Presents-
TY GAGNE
“Where You’ll Find me- risk, decisions, and
the last climb of Kate Matrosova”
Wednesday, May 2cond 6pm
On February
15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a
traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire’s White
Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the
mountains amid some of the worst weather ever recorded on these deceptively
rugged slopes.
At 32, she was
ultra-fit and healthy and had already summited much larger mountains on several
continents. Her gear included a rescue beacon and a satellite phone. Yet,
despite their best efforts, forty-two expert search and rescue personnel, a New
Hampshire Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter, and a Civil Air Patrol
Cessna airplane could not reach her in time to save her.
What went
wrong?
Ty Gagne is
chief executive officer of New Hampshire Public Risk Management Exchange
(Primex3), a public entity risk pool serving local governments in New
Hampshire. He is a certified wilderness first responder, and serves on the
Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue Team and Board of Directors. He lives in
New Hampshire with his wife.
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