Crevasse rescue training at the MCA's Basic Mountaineering School.

Photo by Dean Carman.

Avalanche drills at the MCA's Basic Mountaineering School.

Photo by Travis Taylor.

A Brocken spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun.

Photo by Wayne Todd.

Crevasse rescue training at the MCA's Basic Mountaineering School.

Photo by Dean Carman.

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