Alex Chiu, 41, of Seattle died June 2 after falling from Mount McKinley’s West Buttress climbing route, the National Park Service said in a June 4 news release.

An experienced climber has died after falling 3,000 feet off the largest mountain in North America. On June 2, Alex Chiu, an avid outdoorist, climber, and mountaineer, was living his dream of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...