Word: cearley
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...
...much. As usual, Hersey, 36, an Englishman who lived in Boulder, Colorado, had been climbing alone. No one knows what went wrong, at what height, on a route that should have been relatively easy for him. It was a private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope up, Cearley, who was not using his ice ax, lost his balance and slid away...
...sorry truth is that too many climbers are there already, at least on the big-name peaks. At the time Cearley fell to his death on Denali, 489 other climbers were somewhere on the famous mountain, America's highest. During the week just before, 147 had reached the summit. "Believe it or not, sometimes it can get kind of crowded up there," says Denali park ranger Kathy Sullivan...