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Title	Daiber (Ome) interview, 1974
Interviewee's Name/Names	Daiber, Ome
Interviewer	Winn, Karyl; Majors, Harry
Interview Date/s	21 November 1974, 26 January 1975
Notes	Mountaineer, inventor, hiker and specialist in mountain rescue missions. Ome Daiber was born in 1907 and died April 2, 1989 at age 81. Topics on Part 1 include a rescue on Mt. McKinley, surveying in St. Elias range, and Clark Schurman (a Boy Scout troop leader). Subject timestamps: (00:00) discussion of climber death and lack of appropriate equipment, (3:55) 1960 Mt. McKinley rescue climb, 5 total people (including John Day and Pete Schoening) in distress, rescuers gathered from Yakima, Tacoma, Portland, principals were Ralph Johnson, Wolf [Bauer], (12:00) took a C-124 plane to McKinley, military involvement in rescue, (15:00) equipment taken to McKinley rescue, organization of rescue communication, (17:40) transport of equipment and manpower to McKinley, (21:55) detail of military air transport involvement in the rescue (24:00) Daiber’s role in rescue was operations, detail of those involved on actual mountain, (24:25) people involved “on the mountain” for the actual rescue, (25:00) Paul Cruise involved in rescue, continuation of McKinley rescue detail, (28:30) difficulties with radio communication during mountain rescue, (30:10) detail of rescue team action to move stranded hikers down the mountain, pilot death, (32:45) private Alaskan pilot (Lincoln Luckett) comes in to aid with rescue at the 17,000 foot camp, establishes communication with stranded climbers, (37:05) 1935 Arctic surveying expedition in Yukon territory near Mount St. Elias area for National Geographic, (40:05) discussion of Daiber’s ascent of Mt. Jetty during 1935 surveying expedition in the Mount St. Elias range, (43:45) first to use “oblique” aerial photo for mapping area, (45:00) April 1965 expedition climbed “pinnacle across from Mt. Kennedy”, (46:20) discussion of “telescope sights” - telescope deconstruction and repair on expedition, (54:30) discussion of friendship Clark Schurman and Boy Scouts of America involvement in Seattle with Troop 65 Part 2 is a lecture delivered in an Arctic course on mountaineering given by Ome Daiber on January 26, 1975
Individuals Discussed	Schurman, Clark
Organizations Discussed	Boy Scouts of America
Geographic Coverage	United States--Alaska; United States--Washington (State);
Time Period Discussed	1935-1965
Genre	Oral histories
Language	English
Digital Collection	Oral History Collection
Digital ID Number	OHC0034
Ordering Information	To request a high resolution or uncompressed reproduction, or to obtain permission to use any portion of this item, contact the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Email: photos@uw.edu. Please reference the Digital ID Number.
Rights	This copy was produced for preservation and reference use from original material from the UW Libraries Special Collections. Further duplication of any kind for any purpose is not permitted without permission. Intellectual property rights including copyright belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. If the material is still under copyright permission to publish may be necessary and should be sought from the owners of such rights. Contact email: photo@uw.edu
Repository	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Repository Collection	Ome Daiber Papers, Accession No. 3592-001
Repository Collection Guide	To view the finding aid for this collection see: http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/view?docId=DaiberOme3592.xml;query=Ome%20Daiber;brand=default
Digital Format	audio/flv
CONTENTdm number	96

Title	Ome Daiber interview, audio
Notes	Prevalant tape noise. Faint music can be heard at various points in the interview.
Genre	Oral histories
Digital Collection	Oral History Collection
Digital ID Number	OHC0034-Audio
Ordering Information	To request a high resolution or uncompressed reproduction, or to obtain permission to use any portion of this item, contact the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Email: photos@uw.edu. Please reference the Digital ID Number.
Rights	This copy was produced for preservation and reference use from original material from the UW Libraries Special Collections. Further duplication of any kind for any purpose is not permitted without permission. Intellectual property rights including copyright belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. If the material is still under copyright permission to publish may be necessary and should be sought from the owners of such rights. Contact email: photo@uw.edu
Repository	University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Extent	57 minutes, 25 seconds
Digital Format	audio.flv
Physical Description	1 sound cassette, analog, stereo
Item ID Number	Item ID: 05090
Digital File Name	05090A.wav, 05090B.wav
Digital Reproduction Information	Digital, stereo. Converted from analog recording to 24 bit/48kHz Broadcast WAV format files by University of Washington Libraries in 2012.
CONTENTdm number	94

Daiber (Ome) interview, 1974

Ome Daiber interview, audio

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Daiber (Ome) interview, 1974

Daiber (Ome) interview, 1974