As thousands reveled in the gaiety of Calgary's annual stampede one night last week, three black hearses rolled across the city to a downtown funeral home. Past oblivious, whoopee-making crowds, the hearses bore the bodies of seven U.S. schoolboys, victims of the worst mountain-climbing accident in Canada's history.
The trip to tragedy began last month when 22 teen-agers left Philadelphia with Wilderness Camp, a summertime hike-and-climb outfit. Led by Oliver D. Dickerson, 29, a University of Pennsylvania instructor, and William Oeser, 29, a Baltimore schoolteacher, the Wilderness Campers (at $270 a...
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