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That Time a Guy Parachuted Onto Devils Tower and No One Could Figure Out How to Get Him Down (2018x20)
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Nestled safely in the bosom of the Bear Lodge Mountains of Wyoming is a large rock formation known simply as Devils Tower. A popular landmark and the first recognised United States National Monument (declared such by President Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906), the imposing rocky butte was at the forefront of a bizarre media frenzy in 1941 when a parachutist became hopelessly stranded atop it.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/12/story-man-became-national-news-stranded-giant-rock/
Sources:
http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/devilstower.html
https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-fifty-years-george-hopkins.htm
http://climbaz.com/interviews/devilstower.html
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19411004&id=f7o0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q4MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2412,1532277&hl=en
https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-climbers.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrance_Route
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2009/11/true-tales-national-parks-get-me-devils-tower4886
Image Credit:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Devils_Tower_National_Monument_WY.jpg
https://www.defense.gov/Photos/Photo-Gallery/igphoto/2001315310/
https://www.nps.gov/deto/learn/historyculture/first-climbers.htm
https://pixabay.com/ru/%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B6%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%81-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D
