We got e-mail and comments after our first "Lost Flights" story published on Sunday. Fellow writer Cyndee Fontana and I are pleased that readers are interested in following our journey. We hope you keep writing.
One commenter, Ron Thiesen, noted that he has climbed Mount Darwin and spotted plane wreckage there. He assumed it was the same 1942 crash that killed four airmen on Mount Mendel, which is right next door to Darwin. He says he realizes now that it is not the 1942 crash.
We agree with Ron. We don't think it's the same crash either. According to Seattle author Peter Stekel, who is writing about the Mendel crash, there was a different crash on Darwin in 1983. Don't know much more than that, at the moment.
Stekel says he may visit Darwin on his trip to the high Sierra next week. Our main target on the trip next week is Mendel Glacier where we're hoping to find more evidence of the crash and perhaps another victim.
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