MRA History DVD

This DVD contains a new documentary video and two historic films, as well as special features.

Mountains Don’t Care, But We Do!  (27 minutes) Topograph Media, 2009, featuring Dee Molenaar, Jim Whittaker, Wolf Bauer, Dick Pooley and other key individuals involved in the early history of mountain rescue in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the development of mountain rescue teams in Washington and Oregon including the first major operation on Mount McKinley in 1960.   The video closes with a look at mountain rescue today, as well as some answers to the question:  What motivates mountain rescuers?

Watch the trailer.

Mountain Rescue Training at the Wilder Kaiser, Austria, 1948.  (25 minutes) Historic footage of early mountain rescue techniques developed by Wastl Mariner and others in Austria and Germany in the 1940’s.   Curtesy of  the International Commission of Alpine Rescue (IKAR)..

Mountains Don’t Care. (20  minutes) Produced by the Seattle Mountain Rescue Council in 1953, featuring Ome Daiber (founder of Seattle Mountain Rescue), with Jim and Lou Whittaker. Courtesy of the Spring Family Trust for Trails, see http://www.springtrailtrust.org/

Special Features: Selected interviews with the pioneers of mountain rescue in the Pacific Northwest, and slides of the founding meeting of the Mountain Rescue Association at Mount Hood in 1959.

Produced by Topograph Media, www.topographmedia.com, Copyright 2009

If you are interested in purchasing this DVD (cost is $10.00 plus $1.50 S/H) email mra stores for ordering information..