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Accident reports as of February 22, 2006
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Luis de Carlos, 60, from Naremburn in Sydney’s north, is believed to have blown off the Lanin volcano, near the border of Chile and Argentina in the Patagonian region.
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A climber abseiling down Tower Ridge approach to Ben Nevis was killed after falling 100 feet.
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Climbers have discovered the skeletel remains of a hiker belived lost on Mount Cook in the 1980s.
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Avalanches killed seven Czech tourists Saturday in Slovakia’s highest mountain range and a German man on a snowshoe tour a day earlier in Switzerland, officials said.
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New Year’s Day avalanche killed two snowmobilers near Rocky Mountain National Park, officials said.
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Patrick D. Niedringhaus, 18, was killed in an avalanche between Fourteeners Torreys Peak and Grays Peak.
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SeattlePI reports Rev. Santos Teixeira fell 400 feet from Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park.
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WNEP reports Sarae Rinker, 18, was killed when a boulder she was climbing shifted at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Rinker was pinned for more than three hours.
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