North Cascades National Park, Washington – Three climbers of Seattle’s suburb died in an autumn during the weekend in North Cascades National Park, Sheriff’s officials said.
Sheriff’s staff and county search and rescue volunteers responded to the accident on Sunday morning to about 16 miles (26 kilometers) west of Mazama in an area of rock formations that are popular among the climbers, said the Sheriff’s office of Okanogan County County in a social media post on Monday.
A Four Renton Festival was involved in the fall while descending a steep in the North Early Winters Spire area. The post said that three people aged 36, 47 and 63 died in the place.
The fourth person suffered an internal hemorrhage and a traumatic brain injury in the fall, but released, walked towards his car and led to a salary phone to ask for help, the sheriff of Okanogan County David Yarnell He told the Seattle Times. The man was taken to the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
“He did not realize that he had as important internal injuries as he did,” said Yarnell. Your current condition is not known.
A helicopter rescue team from the nearby Snohomish County helped recover the bodies of the technical and mountainous terrain.
The failure of anchor while the rappel is the alleged cause of the accident, said the post. An investigation is ongoing.
