The man, identified by Denali National Park and Preserve as 41-year-old Alex Chiu, fell 3,000 feet from Denali's West Buttress route onto the Peters Glacier on Monday.

An experienced ski mountaineer from the Big Apple plummeted 3,000 feet to his death while climbing America’s tallest mountain Monday, officials said. Alex Chiu, 41, was scaling the West Buttress ...

A 41-year-old mountaineer, identified as Alex Chiu, died after falling 3,000 ft. from a climbing route on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley on June 2 His body was recovered two days later on Wednesday, June 4 ...

Alex Chiu, 41, was climbing the West Buttress of Alaska's Mount McKinley,© Forever missed/Quynh Phan Chiu fell toward the Peters Glacier, an exposed rocky 3000-foot face© Forever missed/Quynh Phan ...

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.

Alex Chiu, 41, of Seattle, Washington, died as a result of a 3,000-foot fall from the Mt. McKinley West Buttress climbing route on the way to the Peters Glacier. (Alex Chiu/Facebook) ...

Alex Chiu, 41, fell to his death Monday while on an expedition on Mount McKinley's West Buttress, park officials said.

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.

Alex Chiu, 41, was climbing along the West Buttress route with two others when he fell. His body was recovered two days later, NPS said.

Two other members of the 41-year-old's expedition on the West Buttress route to Peters Glacier reported Monday that Chiu fell at a spot called Squirrel Point. They lowered over the edge as far as ...

Alex Chiu's body was transferred to the state medical examiner Wednesday, the Denali National Park and Preserve said in a statement.