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Deborah:
I read this in the article "Loving Them to Death"


--- Quote ---Despite such reforms, deadly mishaps continued. In the mideighties, a 13-year-old boy fell from a cliff to his death while enrolled in a course run by the Idaho-based School for Urban and Wilderness Survival.
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Does anyone have links to this story, or know any further details?

Ganja:

Anonymous:
The boy was a 13 year old from Bellevue, Wash. He was enrolled in SUWS in July of 1985. The temperature was in the high 90's and low 100's that day. The group set out on there hike without water to drink. The reason was so they would be motivated to hike to the water holes along the trail. The first two water holes were dry, but they were forced to continue. This young boy passed out numerous times and eventually became delirious and fell behind. As the group approched the third water hole, the boy passed out again and was abandoned by the counselor. This was when he fell off the cliff. One of the owners of SUWS was L. Jay Mitchell. Mitchell went on to start Alldredge Academy where another child died. It seems Mitchell leaves a trail of suffering and death where ever he goes.

Deborah:
Thanks. It was reported in the Arizona Republic (I think that was the name), but it's 50 bucks to get a copy from their archive. I can't find it posted anywhere on the net. If anyone stumbles on to a copy, please post the url.

Covergaard:
Gregory Owen Jones - july 3, 1985.

Rest in Peace.

Howeever, it is only on the old cached Kathy Moya site, I have found his name. He is missing on the other lists.

I am working on a wikipedia page on SUWS. I have to find hard facts about those things, if the site should be NPOV.

Can it be true that SUWS only had 2 deaths in 25 years?

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