On November 23, 1964, Guy Warren, a New Zealand researcher and leader of Project Two out of mason Base fell and badly broke his lower leg and was stranded on the northeast side of Allan Nunatak,[2] just below the peak, at the head of Mackay Glacier.

Jack Twiss of the U.S. Antarctic Research Programme at McMurdo Station responded with "our best pilot Lieut.

The others had walked up to the tent, loaded Guy, and returned to a lower level to be picked up again, leaving Ivan to replace the casualty.

The chopper would barely lift with the extra weight, and the pilot got it away by more or less tilting it off the brow of the pad and slithering down the hillside into thicker air.

Included below are newspaper reports of Brandau's activities, not clearly dated, found in the Facebook memorial group.