ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) –
One climber was killed and another injured when struck by a falling block of glacier ice in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
The hanging serak detached itself from a peak in front of the western fork of the Ruth Glacier.
A park spokesman says the accident happened while hiking the two peaks on the south flank of Denali, the continent’s highest mountain. The ice hit them on Thursday as they began climbing the west face of Reality Ridge.
A 31-year-old man from Logan, Utah, was beaten unconscious. When he woke up, he found his climbing partner dead.
The dead person was identified as a 32-year-old man from Rigby, Idaho.
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