Unknown Date 1964
"In describing an ascent of Pyramid Peak, my father wrote:For some reason I got stuck with the right most (toward the face) coulouir and it was too steep and loose to be safe. I lost it once due to a loose rock, but was able to grab a solid one quickly enough to avoid what would have been a catastrophic tumble down the very steep gully. We'd each taken a different gully to avoid the rock hazard... Two guys from Aspen had tried to follow us up the snow field in the amphitheater, but turned back. They came back the following weekend and one of them fell on the snowfield and was killed."
Source: Emailed submission - Jim Haley
July 23, 1988
Heinz Pagels, a well-known physicist, was Executive Director of The New York Academy of Sciences, adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University, and president of the International League for Human Rights. He suffered a fatal fall.Source: www.edge.org
January 28, 1996
A party of four Romanians encountered an avalanche en route to the Ampitheater. Three survived, while Valerin Anton was buried by a 300' wide crown three to four feet deep.Source: www.csac.org
A view of Pyramid Peak's Northeast Ridge