Cat Mascot at Northeast’s Highest Peak Dies After 12 Years on Duty

Marty the cat walks on a boulder outside the Mount Washington Observatory in North Conway, N.H. on June 28, 2020. The black Maine coon cat, who has patrolled the Northeast's highest peak for a dozen years as its weather observatory's mascot, has died. Ryan Knapp/Mount Washington Observatory via AP

NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire—A cat that patrolled the highest peak in the northeast United States for a dozen years as its weather observatory’s mascot has died.

Marty, a black Maine coon cat, succumbed to “an unforeseen illness,” Mount Washington Summit Operations Manager Rebecca Scholand said in a news release on Nov. 9.