The Mountaineer 103 



pressure alone will not stop, tie a handkerchief or strip 

 of torn garment above the cut, as tightly as necessary 

 to stop the flow of blood, till the artery can be tied with 

 a stitch around it. 



To be a good mountaineer is to be good in emergen- 

 cies, and it is surprising how much a layman can do, 

 whatever the accident, in the way of first aid. Every 

 difficulty yields to common sense and a cool head. 



A MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE. 



E. H. Wells. 



A sixteen-year-old Seattle girl was entombed alive 

 one day last August deep down in a glacier crevasse op 

 Mt. Rainier. She was finally rescued, after four long 

 and terrible hours spent in the dark abyss of ice. Today 

 the heroine of this startling adventure, Marjorie Hellen- 

 brand, is alive and well and attending the Broadway 

 high school. 



The story escaped the daily papers. Miss Marjorie 

 is a very modest sort of mountain climber, who seeks 

 no glory in the public prints. So she carefully kept her 

 story and photograph away from the editors and report- 

 ers, and by so doing "scooped" them all. 



Only by chance recently did the facts reach the ears 

 of the writer, and the latter, after considerable persua- 

 sion, finally secured permission to give them to the 

 readers of The Mountaineer. 



On Wednesday, August 21, 1907, a party of sixteen 

 persons, under the leadership of Dr. Lauman, started 

 from camp at the foot of Mt. Rainier, to climb the face 

 of the mountain, aiming to reach the point known as 

 Little Tahoma. 



In the party were the following, besides Dr. Lauman : 



