Day: July 23, 2020
Make contact with: Gina Kerzman, 406-888-5838
WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 23, 2020] – Glacier Nationwide Park has identified the victim of a climbing incident in the Logan Pass region on the evening of Tuesday, July 21 as 20-year-aged Josh Yarrow of Wichita, Kansas. Yarrow was shelling out the summer working for a regional organization in the West Glacier location.
Yarrow was mountain climbing off-path in the space referred to as the Dragon’s Tail, southwest of Mount Reynolds. He was trying to retrieve a fallen backpack at the time of the accident. His fall of roughly 500 ft was witnessed by a climbing husband or wife who went for enable. Glacier National Park rangers acquired the report of the incident at 7:46 pm and immediately initiated a search and rescue procedure.
Two Bear Air’s rescue helicopter was in a position to get to the target and validate that he had died. The system was recovered by Two Bear Air.
Glacier Countrywide Park officers remind readers that off-trail mountaineering and mountain climbing are inherently hazardous actions due to particularly rugged and steep terrain. Hikers and climbers will come across steep snowfields and free rocks alongside a lot of of the climbing routes in the park.
This incident was the next rescue mission in the Logan Move location in just the previous week. On Wednesday, July 16th a climber was wounded soon after sliding down a snowfield around the saddle on Mt Oberlin. Falls though climbing and climbing, alongside with drowning, are the major results in of accidental demise in Glacier National Park.
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