A mountain climber passed away after a deadly fall from "the escalator" while another suffered serious injuries, CNN reported.
The two roped climbers were climbing Mount Johnson in Alaska from the Escalator route, which is a "steep and technical alpine climb on the peak’s southeast face" involving a "mix of steep rock, ice, and snow".
Another climbing group was on the same route when they saw the two mountaineers fall 1,000 feet below.
They immediately alerted the Alaska Regional Communication Centre before coming down to find them.
Upon reaching them, they found that one climber whose name hasn’t been disclosed had passed away, while the other hiker had sustained "serious traumatic injuries."
A press release by Alaska’s Denali National Park said, "The responders dug a snow cave and attended to the surviving climber's injuries throughout the night."
The morning after, Denali’s high-altitude rescue helicopter pilot and two mountaineering rangers came to their rescue. One ranger was lowered to the group of climbers, and the injured patient was lifted out to a flat glacier and loaded into the helicopter.
The injured patient is undergoing treatment.
The helicopter squad later came back to find the body of the dead climber, however, due to bad weather, they had to turn back.