GC1TE75 Fred's (Traditional Cache) in Queensland, Australia created by Guddink

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A cache by Guddink Message this owner

Hidden : 12/5/2011

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Geocache Description:

Fred's memorial plaque is on a rock near the far fence. Coominya Railway Station park.

A small container with log book and a couple of small swaps. BYO pen.
Caution. At the moment there are wasp nests in the small tree near bye.

Fred From.

For almost a decade, Fred From, a doctor, was a significant force in Queensland climbing. He refused to use either climbing boots or chalk. Raised on a farm at Coominya, just west of Brisbane, From soon acquitted himself on the Frog Buttress classics, leading Conquistador in fine style. By this time, the Brisbane Rockclimbing Club had fizzled out and a new University of Queensland Climbing Club had started up with From its ambassador. He had soon added new routes on the steep columns of Crookneck, at Girraween and Knapps Peak. In 1984, Fred From set out on his greatest adventure—an attempt on Everest via the West Ridge. Tragically, he fell to his death, tripping on his crampons, while searching for another Australian climber, Craig Nottle, who had fallen in the same way, at the same place. It happened on From’s 28th birthday—9 October. At the same time as From fell to his death, another Australian expedition was on Everest forcing a bold new route, White Limbo, up the Great Couloir the North Face, climbing Alpine-style without supplementary oxygen. Of the team, Tim McCartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer reached the summit.

AUSTRALIAN mountaineer Roddy Mackenzie will never forget September 10, 1984. For several weeks he and his climbing team - Australians Jon Muir, Craig Nottle and Fred From and New Zealanders Kim Logan and Peter Hillary - had been plotting their way up Mount Everest's dangerous West Ridge. Mackenzie was brewing tea in his tent on a metre-wide ledge at 7800 metres when Nottle and From lost their footing and disappeared down the Hornbein Couloir into Tibet. Both died. The team immediately abandoned the climb and returned home, shattered.

By Charisse Ede. 4 June 2003
Twenty-one Australians have climbed to the summit of Everest since 1984, including the first Australian female, Brigitte Muir. All but Macartney-Snape and Mortimer's climbs have been via the South Col and North Ridge. However, four Australians have died trying: Craig Nottle and Fred From in 1984, Mike Rheinberger in 1994 and Mark Auricht in 2001. In 2008 an Australian man attempting the climb was forced back when he helped rescue a fallen British colleague who broke a leg at 8,500m.

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