In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy

Quand

22 nov. 1971

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

57.09° N, 3.67° W

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Cairngorm Plateau disaster.

In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.

1971 Scottish mountaineering disaster

The Cairngorm Plateau disaster, also known as the Feith Buidhe disaster, occurred in November 1971 when six fifteen-year-old students from Edinburgh's Ainslie Park High School and their two leaders embarked on a two-day navigational expedition in a remote area of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands.

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