DENVER (AP) – Earl Ervin Clark, who served in the famed 10th Mountain Division in World War II and helped found the unit’s veterans association, has died. He was 95.
Clark died Sunday, his close friend Dick Over told The Associated Press. The cause of death wasn’t available.
A lifelong skier, Clark was a member of the National Ski Patrol and was inducted into the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame in 2001.
Clark was born in Londonderry, Vermont, on July 3, 1919, and learned to ski as a teen in Wisconsin, the Denver Post reported (http://tinyurl.com/oxovcwb ).
He joined the Army in 1942 and volunteered for an experimental skiing unit that became part of the 10th Mountain Division.