A Japanese man presumed dead after falling into a deep crevasse on the Kahiltna Glacier in Denali National Park late Tuesday was part of a small group filming two climbers on Mount Hunter, a park spokeswoman said.
Light escapes through a break in the clouds over Mount Hunter in Denali National Park and Preserve on July 16, 2010. on the Kahiltna Glacier in Denali National Park late Tuesday was part of a small group filming two climbers on Mount Hunter, a park spokeswoman said Thursday.
He arrived in the park on May 12 with four others, a group that expected to stay for two weeks, she said. At some point, they split into two smaller groups and two climbers began ascending Mount Hunter while the other three camped at the Kahiltna Basecamp and filmed them. A ranger rappelled as far into the crevasse as possible, according to the Park Service, and confirmed the ice bridge collapse had filled the area “with a large volume of snow and ice approximately 80 feet below the glacier surface.”
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