Ernst Peter
Dino Crameri
Mario Brunoldi
February 28th 1937
Swiss Alpine Club, Rescue Section, Grison
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Hans Messmer
February 1st 1942
Swiss Alpine Club, Rescue Section, Valais
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Franc Talar
Miran Marn
August 19th 1942
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Rescue, Crevasse Fall
Joos Bezzola
Hans Denoth
Johannes Goette
Julius Raehm
Arthur Roth
Ernst Thut
January 19th 1951
Swiss Alpine Club, Rescue Section, Grison
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Tony Deane
March 9th 1958
National Ski Patrol
Avalanche Rescue
Avalanched, Easter Bowl, Mt. Ogden, UT
Charles Carman, CAP
Harold Horn, CAP
September 2nd 1959
Mt. Rainier National Park, WA
Search Mission
Tom Dumay
June 28th 1963
Glacier National Park, MT
Water Body Recovery
Drowned
Frank Shults
March 23rd 1964
Great Smokey Mountain National Park, NC
Plane Crash Rescue
Heart Attack
James Lawler
William Shaner
May 21st 1966
Fire Island National Seashore, NY
Surf Rescue.
Drowned.
Pietro Zanzi
November 4th 1966
Schweizer Alpen-Club
Swiss Alpine Club, Rescue Section, Tessin
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Brian Watts
May 27th 1969
Mountain Club of South Africa SAR Team
Body Recovery, Rope Abrasion
Dennis Long
August 6th 1969
Isle Royale National Park, MI
Lake Rescue
Drowned
Dr. Gorazd Zavrnik
Franc Stajer
June 29th 1975
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Rescue, Helicopter Accident
Franz Gisler
January 3rd 1976
Swiss Alpine Club, Rescue Section, Valais
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Jack Dorn – Climber
May 23rd 1977
Yosemite National Park SAR, CA
Rescue Mission.
Apparent fall from exposed trail.
Captain John Dunnavant, US Army
Captain Terrance Woolever, US Army
Sgt. Floyd Smith, US Army
Lt. Col. Ray Maynard, CAP
January 4th 1978
Great Smoky Mountain National Park, NC
Rescue Mission.
Rotary Wing Accident.
Reserve Deputy James L. Epp
March 1, 1978
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Jeep Posse, AZ
Flood Rescue.
Drowned during rescue attempt.
Volodja Tkacev
July 8th 1979
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Training, Helicopter Accident
Pilot Don Mahoney
Pat Kidgell
Roy Lewis
Tom Sanders
September 11th 1980
North Cascades National Park, WA
Aircraft Crash Search Mission.
Rotary Wing Accident.
Franc Zupan
July 9th 1982
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Rescue, Slip on Glacier
Mike Rudall (Nog)
1983
Bridgend Mountain Rescue, Scotland
Rescue, Rockfall
Felice Gadola
February 9th 1984
Swiss Alpine Club, Rescue Section, Grison
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Police Sgt. Harry Lawrie (BEM)
February 1st 1987
Killin Mountain Rescue Team, Scotland
Alpine Rescue,
Helicopter Accident
Paul Neher
May 27th 1990
Austrian Mountain Rescue Service, Vandans
Rescue, Struck by Rockfall
James Matthews, CAP
Clayton Reed, CAP
October 2nd 1991
Everglades National Park, FL
Search
Fixed Wing Accident
Karl W. Reishus
May 3rd 1992
Juneau Mountain Rescue, AK
Training.
Fall from tower.
Patrick Sheehan
November 26th 1992
Parks Canada Training Climb
Jakob Ornik
January 1st 1993
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Rescue, Unknown
Pilot Gary McCall
Nurse Sandy Sigman
July 9th 1994
Flight For Life, CO
Medical Evacuation, 12,200 ft ASL
Rotary Wing Accident.
Simon Parboosingh
August 31st 1994
Parks Canada, Banff
Avalanche Training
Ski Patroller
Early-mid 1990s
National Ski Patrol, Mt. Hood, OR
Avalanche Rescue
Avalanched
Rebecca Needham Anderson, RN
April 19th 1995
Oklahoma City, OK
USAR Search and Recovery.
Falling debris.
Jürgen Pregenzer
May 10th 1995
Austrian Mountain Rescue Service, Dornbirn
Rescue, Struck by Rockfall
Pilot Peter Crown
Officer Bryant Bayne
Officee Tate Kahaki
July 21st 1995
Honolulu PD, HI
Search Mission.
Rotary Wing Accident.
Janez Plevel
January 17th 1997
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Rescue, Avalanched
Dr. Jani Kokalj
Mitja Brajnik
Luka Karnicar
Rado Markic
Boris Mlekuz
June 10th 1997
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Training, Helicopter Accident
Pilot Stan Berg
Paramedic Tim Hynes
Nurse Shayne Carnahan
January 11th 1998
University of Utah Hospital AirMed, UT
Medical Evacuation.
Rotary Wing Accident.
Officer
Officer
Firefighter
Responder
June 18, 2000
Mount Asakusa, Niigata, Japan
Searchers. Avalanched
Captain Christer Calla
Co-Pilot Sven Hjalmarsson
Flight Engineer Lennart Söderlund
August 11th 2000
Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden
Rescue Mission, Rotary Wing Accident.
Mountain Rescuer Edy Gross
Mountain Rescuer Nicholas Gaspoz
February 3rd 2001
Maison FXB du sauvetage, Switzerland
Rescue Mission, Avalanched.
Mountain Rescuer
August 9th 2001
Austrian Mountain Gendarmerie
Schneeberg, Tyrol
Crevasse Drill
Posseman Bruce Cox
August 30th 2001
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Posse, AZ
Evidence Search, Cardiac Arrest.
400 Firefighters, Police Officers and Emergency Responders
September 11th 2001
FDNY, NYPD, NY EMS…
World Trade Center, NY
Urban Search and Rescue, Evacuation
Building Collapse.
Staff Sgt. Doug Eccleston, PJ
December 7th 2001
USAF 920th Rescue Group, Patrick AFB, FL
Sea Rescue Mission.
Marek Labunowicz
Bartlomiej Olszanski
December 30th 2001
Tatra Mountain Rescue Service, Poland
Avalanche Rescue, Avalanched
Ranger Mike Wynn
January 13th 2002
Jasper Park SAR, Parks Canada
Patrol Mission, Avalanched.
Ingo Montibeller, 49
June 22nd 2002
Austrian Mountain Rescue Service, Partenen
Rescue, Fall at Vallülaspitze
Aron Bitschnau
October 10th 2002
Austrian Mountain Rescue, Austria
Schruns-Tschagguns Unit
Enroute rescue, MVA
Heinrich Vogt
October 14th 2002
Austrian Mountain Rescue, Austria
Training, Bodensee.
Rotary Wing Short Haul Accident.
Martin Cufar
February 3rd 2003
Slovenian Mountain Rescue
Rescue, Avalanched