The new book reveals that the late Mika Myllylä was in a tough place in Mount McKinley in 1995.
Mika Myllylä skiing in Ramsau in 1995. Aop
Mika Wickström novelty book Mika Myllylä’s life (Otava) tells about the 1995 climbing trip to which skiers Jari Isometsä and Mika Myllylä participated.
Thunder Bay’s March World Championships were behind, and the skiers had a so-called intermediate year in the value races.
Myllylä’s manager Ismo Väänänen Arranged skiers for mountain conquest for Alaska Mount McKinley, which is more than six kilometers above sea level.
The cold climbing destination was departed in May 1995. The guide was Gary Bocarde.
The group reached about four kilometers with Bocarde, but then there were big challenges. Due to the difficult weather conditions, a deep snowstorm had to be dug so that the storm did not swipe climbers with the tent in the gorge.
The camping experience was quite large, Väänänen recalls in the book.
– The first morning I tried to go out with my needs. I got maybe ten meters from the tent. Then I fell to my crippled and did not distinguish the sky from the hanging, everything was just as thick a snowstorm.
After that, the guide denied everyone to leave the tent.
The lives went
Bocarde led the crowd survived the storm, but it wasn’t as good for a US group. The United States had met the Finns before the trip. They left the storm for a day too early to reach the Finnish camp and lost their lives.
Several climbers were in danger during that trip, and a total of seven people died in the snowstorm.
After the rescue tasks, the guide was so exhausted that the ski group did not reach the top of McKinley. When I returned, the Myllylä had to go seriously. Myllylä went above and the large forest was connected to the safety rope.
– Suddenly, Mika fell to her eggs, the big forest times.
– I did as the guide had said: Immediately and fell on the ice so I could support a friend, Isometsä continues in the book.
The skiers were able to tear the humor even in a bad place.
– Mika stumbled in the rail, looked around and then said, “Ryro, otherwise a deep rail.” I am now that if there was a knife for a safety rope, I would win all Finnish championships next winter, Isometsä says.
He remembers the Myllylä reaction.
– Mika started to cheer and said, “Pull but now here.”
After returning from Alasa, Myllylä married his then partner Suvi Paavola with.