Two climbers last heard from as they prepared to scale a peak in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve last week are believed dead, the park said today.
National Park Service officials shot this photo of the West Ridge of Moose’s Tooth during a search for two missing climbers from a high altitude helicopter on May 7, 2023. in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve last week are believed dead, the park said Thursday.
Eli Michel, 34, of Columbia City, Indiana, and Nafiun Awal, 32, of Seattle, were last heard from on May 5, when they checked in with a friend using a satellite communication device before setting out to climb on the 10,300-foot peak called the Moose’s Tooth, the park has said. The mountain is about 12 miles southeast of Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, park officials have said.
Search efforts began Sunday after a friend notified park officials that the climbers had not been in contact with them. Park mountaineering rangers plan to continue aerial searches for signs of the climbers over the next few months, the statement said.
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