I'm emailing you some information on two survival situations:

1) Cecil Craig's 1967 landing on the side of Crater Lake (OR) in the
snow in winter, after a wave flight from Mt Rainier (WA), and his rescue
the next by a team on snowmobiles. The original article is in Soaring
(April 1969).

2) The other was a crash on a ridge near Mt Rainier, I believe also in
Soaring but I don't know when. Rescue was the next day, pilot unhurt.


John Shelton wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen:

I have been contacted by a television production company creating a series
on adventure sports. They were very impressed with the crappy media I gave
them about soaring and would like to include an "expedition" if we can meet
their parameters.

It is Friday afternoon and I have until Monday to come up with something.

So, put on your thinking hats: Do you know of an expedition (they call it)
conducted with a sailplane that went wrong and resulted in a survival
situation? It will be re-enacted. I have the actors. I have the sailplanes.
I will get the camera ship.

I need the story.

This will not be someone losing their yaw string and having to hitchhike to
a dress shop. It will not be JJ landing at a whorehouse with no money on
him. We are talking SURVIVAL. They will probably want to shoot in the US but
I did not ask if the story had to be an American story.

I wish I was getting paid but I am not. On the other hand, the actors will.

So either come up with an adventure or go out this weekend, land out in a
frozen wasteland, survive by eating your parachute, hike out to
civilization, loose two fingers to frostbite and come home a wiser man or
woman. (Do women get wiser or is that just they are?)

Thank you. And be quick.




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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA