The skier and his climbing partner, who was snowboarding, were caught as they descended a slope on the West Buttress Route, ...

fell 3,000 feet from Denali’s West Buttress route onto the Peters Glacier on Monday. The fall was reported by two other members of the expedition. Chiu died as a result of the fall, the National ...

Inclement weather has delayed the search for a man who went missing on the West Buttress route A ski mountaineer is missing on Alaska’s 20,310-foot Denali. According to a press release from the ...

A 29-year-old skier from Washington died in an avalanche in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, making it the second ...

Photo of the area on the West Buttress route where the fall took place on ... fell 3,000 feet to his death off the West Buttress of Denali. The agency identified the victim as 41-year-old Alex ...

June 5 (UPI) --Climber Alex Chiu's body was found Wednesday after he plunged 3,000 feet from Denali's Squirrel Point on the mountain's West Buttress route. That point on the Alaska mountain is ...

3—A 41-year-old man on a ski mountaineering expedition on a popular Denali route is missing ... The man was in a group of three people on the West Buttress route when he fell at a spot known ...

The mountaineer, identified as Alex Chiu, 41, by the National Park Service, died after falling 3,000 feet from Denali’s West Buttress route onto Peters Glacier, an exposed face of rock and seracs. His ...

The upper portion of Denali's West Buttress route. Bad weather has halted a search for a 41-year-old mountaineer who remains missing after falling Monday off the West Buttress of Denali.

Although the West Buttress is considered the easiest and most accessible route on Denali—and is the route chosen by over 90 percent of Denali hopefuls—it still entails a variety of hazards ...