The body of a mountaineer was found on Wednesday after falling at 3,000 feet when he died of Alaska Mont McKinleyThe highest mountain in North America, also known as Denali.
The National Park Service said in a press release that Alex Chiu, 41, fell from Squirrel Point on the road to the West Background of the Mountain, about 12,000 feet above sea level. Chiu and its expedition were on the way to the Peters glacier.
He was not attached At the time of the incident on Monday and came across an exposed and rocky cliff at around 3,000 feet – about half a million. The strong winds and the snow meant that the rescuers were unable to reach the body by helicopter until early Wednesday.
“After witnessing the fall, the declarant part was lowered as much as possible as much as possible, but could not see or hear Chiu,” said the NPS.
Chiu’s body was transferred to the local medical examiner.
A climber from Japan died while he was on the road to the western buttress May of last year And a French climber, who was also not in rope, fell to his death near the same place in 2010.
McKinley, widely known as Denali, is more than 20,000 feet and a popular destination for climbers. The NP said that around 500 climbers were currently on the mountain.
The mountain was known as Denali for generations, which means “the big” in the Athabascan language, but it was appointed McKinley in 1917.
He was then officially recognized as Denali in 2015 under the administration of Barack Obama, but this year, President Donald Trump ordered that he returned to McKinley. The name of the National Park and the Denali reserve remains unchanged.
