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Tragically the two climbers who were with him at the time witnessed the horror event and were unable to rescue him despite ...
Alex Chiu died after he fell 3,000 feet from Alaska’s Mount McKinley. The 41-year-old man wasn’t wearing a rope during the incident. Two mountaineers on the excursion with Chiu witnessed him fall.
While most of the 433 climbers on McKinley are going up the normal route, one young American has made the first solo of the highly technical Slovak Direct.
Alex Chiu, 41, was climbing the West Buttress of Alaska's Mount McKinley, formerly Denali, 'un-roped' with two others on Monday when he fell from Squirrel Point.. Chiu fell toward the Peters ...
Alex Chiu of Seattle, Washington, fell 3,000 feet to his death on June 3, 2025. ... Rescue Gully on Denali, where an avalanche took place on June 10, 2025.
Denali is the centerpiece of the Denali National Park and Preserve, which spans 2.4 million hectares (6 million acres) of land. Alex Chiu, 41, was climbing the West Buttress of Alaska's Mount ...
The devastating incident happened on Monday, June 2 when Alex Chiu, a ski mountaineer from New York, was climbing the West Buttress of Alaska's Mount McKinley, formerly known as Denali. He was ...