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The man, identified by Denali National Park and Preserve as 41-year-old Alex Chiu, fell 3,000 feet from Denali’s West Buttress route onto the Peters Glacier on Monday.
Seattle man Alex Chiu died after falling 3,000 feet while ski mountaineering on Mount McKinley's West Buttress route in Denali National Park, Alaska, the National Park Service said.
The body of the ski mountaineer reported missing on the towering Alaskan peak Denali earlier this week has been located and recovered, according to the National Park Service. The mountaineer, ...
National Park Service rangers recovered the body of a ski mountaineer on Wednesday who fell 3,000 feet to his death off the West Buttress of Denali. The agency identified the victim as 41-year-old ...
Mountaineering rangers from Denali National Park and Preserve found the climber at 17,000 feet of elevation on the mountain's West Buttress route after being contacted by a family member that had ...
Climber Alex Chiu's body was found Wednesday after he plunged 3,000 feet from Denali's Squirrel Point on the mountain's West Buttress route, according to the National Park Service.
Although the West Buttress is considered the easiest and most accessible route on Denali—and is the route chosen by over 90 percent of Denali hopefuls—it still entails a variety of hazards ...
The devastating incident happened on Monday, June 2 when Alex Chiu, a ski mountaineer from New York, was climbing the West Buttress of Alaska's Mount McKinley, formerly known as Denali. He was ...
Search efforts on the mountain’s West Buttress for the 41-year-old mountaineer were halted by poor weather Tuesday, according to a park spokesperson. Climber missing after fall from Denali ...
While most of the 433 climbers on McKinley are going up the normal route, one young American has made the first solo of the highly technical Slovak Direct.
At 20,310-foot-high, Mount Denali, also known as Mount McKinley, is North America’s highest peak, National Geographic said. Fourteen people have died climbing the West Buttress route since 1980 ...