They were climbing a route that park officials described as “remote and an exceptionally difficult objective, with mixed rock and ice routes requiring advanced alpine mountaineering skills.”
David Lama scouting Lunag Ri, Nepal, from Fox Peak during acclimatization in October 2018. By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow April 19 at 6:27 AM Three of the world’s most venerated alpine climbers are believed to have perished in Canada’s Rocky Mountains after an avalanche cascaded down the mountain they were scaling amid a daring expedition, Canadian officials said Thursday.
Authorities have not been able to launch a recovery mission, however, “due to additional avalanches and dangerous conditions at the scene.” Parks Canada said the climbers began their ascent Tuesday and had already climbed various Canadian peaks recently. John Roskelley told the Spokesman-Review he was expecting his son to call Tuesday night to check in — but he never did. By morning, the elder Roskelley called Canadian authorities, who attempted to search the area by helicopter.“It’s just one of those routes where you have to have the right conditions or it turns into a nightmare,” he told the Spokesman-Review.
Auer, who grew up guiding sheep through the mountains in Austria, had free-soloed a legendary 850-meter route on Italy’s Marmolada mountain known as the Fish, meaning he climbed it without any ropes or assistance. The 2007 achievement was “arguably the hardest ever big-wall free-solo” climb ever completed before Alex Honnold’s recent free-solo climb of El Capitan in 2017, Rock and Ice magazine reported.
Climbing mountains was in Jess Roskelley’s blood, too, although for years he couldn’t decide whether he wanted to pursue it, he told Men’s Journal last year, when the magazine named him the second-most-adventurous person in the world, just behind Honnold.
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