Body of climber recovered after 1,000-foot fatal fall on Alaska peak

Authorities accidental chopper unit has recovered the assemblage of a climber who died aft falling astir 1,000 feet portion connected a steep, method way connected Mount Johnson successful Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A chopper unit recovered connected Saturday the assemblage of a climber who died aft falling astir 1,000 feet (305 meters) portion connected a steep, method way connected Mount Johnson successful Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, parkland officials said successful a statement.

Robbi Mecus, 52, of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained successful a autumn Thursday portion climbing a way connected the southeast look of the 8,400-foot (2,560-meter) Mount Johnson, the parkland said. His climbing partner, a 30-year-old pistillate from California, was earnestly injured and was rescued Friday and flown to an Anchorage hospital, parkland officials said.

Another climbing enactment witnessed the autumn and reported it astir 10:45 p.m. Thursday. They descended to wherever the climbers had fallen and confirmed 1 had died. They dug a snowfall cave and tended to the wounded climber, according to a connection from the park.

Early Friday, a rescue chopper and 2 mountaineering rangers were capable to rescue the injured climber, who was aboriginal medevacked for further care. The chopper and rangers returned to the upland aboriginal to retrieve the assemblage of the climber who died but were forced backmost by deteriorating weather, the connection said. Better upwind connected Saturday greeting allowed the chopper to instrumentality and retrieve Mecus' body, the parkland said.