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.