A member of the Harvard Mountaineer Club fell to his death from Mt. Peak yesterday. M. Merrihue '56, a physicist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, was killed almost when he and a companion, Daniel slipped and dropped more than into Huntington Revine. Matthew Hale '66, treasurer of the club. last night that he and seven other Harvard climbers were on a club trip at Washington yesterday. Merrihue, his and Doody went up separately. Hale and other Harvard climbers we'c the top of another peak when "we someone yelling for help at the of the revine. We got down as at as we could, but Merrihue and Doody are in pretty bad shape--probably dead we gave them mouth to mouth respiration but it didn't do any good." Merrihue was the first member of the Harvard Mountaineering Club to be killed ten years. "He was an experienced member," said Hale. "There is no way to for what happened."
