BC climber critically injured after 1,000-foot fall off North America’s highest mountain
A 31-year-old Burnaby man is in critical condition after falling nearly 1,000 feet while climbing on North America’s highest mountain.
According to the National Park Service (NPS), Adam Rawski was climbing the Denali Pass in Alaska without a rope around 6 pm on Monday.
That’s when several people at the 17,200-foot high camp on Denali’s West Buttress saw him fall.
Several guides responded to the motionless Rawski while the park’s high-altitude helicopter quickly mobilized for an evacuation.
“Pilot Andy Hermansky flew to the 14,200-foot camp, picked up mountaineering ranger Chris Erickson and flew to the site of the fallen climber – landing at the site in less than 30 minutes from initial notification,” explained the NPS.
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA A Canadian climber was in critical condition after falling nearly 1,000 feet (305 metres) while climbing Denali, in Alaska, park officials said. A statement from Denali National Park and Preserve identified the climber as 31-year-old Adam Rawski, of Burnaby, British Columbia. According to the statement, climbers Monday evening at the 17,200-feet (5,2439 metre) high camp on Denali saw an un-roped climber take a tumbling fall of nearly 1,000 feet (305 metres) from Denali Pass, which is at 18,200 feet (5,547 metres) . Guides from the high camp responded, and a park helicopter, which had been out doing glacier monitoring surveys, was able to mobilize for an evacuation, arriving on site within a half-hour of receiving the initial report, the statement said.
A Canadian climber was in critical condition on Tuesday after he fell nearly 1,000 feet during an expedition on Alaska's Denali mountain, the National Park Service said.