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LURCHING FROM ONE
NEAR DISASTER TO ANOTHER. Warren Miller
Char-Broil TRU-Infrared
Death on a Glacier
Oil-less Turkey Fryer
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O
N A RAINY SUNDAY AFTER- de Glace. On a sunny day sometimes sev-
noon, my neighbor Howard eral thousand people will ski down it and
Char-Broil’s TRU-Infrared oil-less turkey
fryer is the safe and healthier way to fry Wright, who is a former airline many stop part way and have lunch in the
your turkey. Prepare your turkey with the pilot, came by my house with his com- bright sunshine.
same injectable marinade you already use, puter and showed me a ilm about half a On that sunny Sunday a skier slid
dozen paragliders lying down from the into a narrow crevasse and only dropped
or use seasoned rubs on the outside, which summit of Mount Blanc in France. After down about 15 feet. People quickly ran
is not an option with traditional fryers.
almost a 15-minute decent, they landed over to help the victim, who was stand-
in a village below.
ing upright with his lower ski and boot
Cooks a turkey from start-to-inish just as
The irst time I saw a ilm of the wedged into both sides of the narrowing
quickly as oil-frying without the messy clean-up.
15,000-foot-high Mount Blanc was 60 crevasse.
years ago. That was when Bill Dunaway, Someone was lowered down with an
who used to own and publish the Aspen ice axe and attempted to chip out the ice
Times together with another mountain- that was holding the ski and boot, but the
eer made the irst descent of the treach- crevasse was closing up faster than the
erous the treacherous north face on skis.
rescuer could chip away at it. The man
This steep glacier was irst climbed in stuck in the crevasse was slowly crushed

the late 1800s and has claimed the lives to death.
of hundreds of people.
I always relied on the skill and knowl-
The thick glacial ice slowly moves edge of mountain men who knew almost
down the hill, crevasses open and close exactly what the snow and ice would do
and giant ice blocks rise up and tumble under almost any circumstances. “Al-
over. I know how dangerous a glacier can most any circumstance” is the deinitive
be having been on a lot of them with my phrase here.

camera.
If I wrote all of the stories that I have
One time in France I took a chance heard or experienced during those many
and was able to climb up and stand on winters in the mountains, I am sure that
1120 US Highway 2 East
a giant ice block and get really unusual I could write an entire book about it.
Kalispell
shots looking down at my skiers as they But I have drifted away from the
went by one at a time below me and movie that Howard Wright showed me –
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jumping across a fairly wide deep blue the men paragliding down the north face
crevasse.
of Mount Blanc. You quickly get caught

The next day, I was ilming on anoth- up in the beauty of the day and the col-
er part of the same glacier when I saw the ored parachutes set against the tumbling
government rescue helicopter headed ice blocks and awesome crevasses. In
for where I had been ilming the day be- reality, an unseen sudden gust of wind
fore.
tumbling down from the summit could
Another television camera crew had instantly delate their parachutes.
seen my ski tracks to the top of that same As the irst few paragliders in close
ice block. While the cameraman was on
formation are being ilmed from the he-
top of the ice block, it tipped over and, as licopter with a village in the background
it did, it broke up and part of it crushed you begin to wonder where they will land
the cameraman.
with their skis on.
For some unknown reason I have al- They glide in for a landing on wet
ways had freedom on my shoulder and grass after completing the irst ever jour-
luck on my side, whether it was on the ney of its kind down a 15,000-foot-high
Tasman Glacier in New Zealand or on mountain.

the glacier in Chamonix called La Mir

For more of Warren’s wanderings go to www.warrenmiller.net or visit him on his Face-
book page at facebook.com/warrenmiller. For information on his Foundation, please
visit the Warren Miller Freedom Foundation, at www.warrenmiller.org.

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