Seattle woman dies while hiking the Brothers Mountain
By Q13 News Staff article
Search and rescue crews gather to help hikers who fell while climbing The Brothers Mountain (Photo courtesy Jefferson Search and Rescue)
BRINNON, Wash. - A 31-year-old Seattle woman died Sunday after falling down a 40-foot crevasse on the Brothers Mountain.
Jefferson County search and rescue crews responded about 1 p.m. to reports of two hikers who had fallen on the mountain in Olympic National Forest. The people who reported the injured hikers stayed with them until rescue crews arrived.
Crews were able to get a helicopter to the scene after multiple attempts and airlift one of the hikers to the hospital. The other, a 31-year-old Seattle woman, was dead when crews reached her.