Craig Luebben

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A climber killed in a 1,100-foot (335-meter) fall on Alaska's Mount McKinley as he tried to retrieve a sliding backpack during an ascent of North America's tallest peak has been identified as a 49-year-old German man.  

THE memory is living on of a Sheffield climber killed while mountaineering in the French Alps. Student physiotherapist James Brownhill, aged 22, died after falling from the Frendo Spur last July. His parents Gary and Christine, from Lodge Moor, set up the ...  

THE memory is living on of a Sheffield climber killed while mountaineering in the French Alps. Student physiotherapist James Brownhill, aged 22, died after falling from the Frendo Spur last July. His parents Gary and Christine, from Lodge Moor, set up the ...  

GARDINER — A New Jersey woman was killed after she fell 20 feet while rock climbing at the Trapps cliff area of the Mohonk Preserve Sunday afternoon. State police said Stephanie Prezant, 22, of Haworth, N.J., was climbing with friends when she ...  

GARDINER — A New Jersey woman was killed when she fell 20 feet while rock climbing at the Trapps cliff area of the Mohonk Preserve Sunday afternoon. State police said Stephanie Prezant, 22, of Haworth, N.J. was climbing with friends when she ...  

EDINBURG -- Rescue personnel were working Friday night to recover the body of a climber who fell "a considerable distance" while rock climbing in George Washington National Forest near Wolf Gap. The victim was across the West Virginia line in Hardy County ...  

A Spotsylvania man has died after a rock-climbing accident in the George Washington National Forest this weekend. Police told Northern Virginia Daily that 38-year-old Adam Kopley was rock climbing Friday afternoon with three other people just ...  

Rock Climbing Death AccidentalWest Virginia MetroNewsState Police in Hardy County say the death of a Virginia climber last week was accidental. Adam Kopley of Spotsylvania, VA, 38, and three friends were rock climbing in the George Washington National Forest Friday when he fell about 50 feet.*Police identify rock climber killed in fallNorthern Virginia DailySpotsylvania Rock Climber Killed In FallNBC4 Washingtonall 4 news articles »  

GARDINER, NY (WABC) -- A 22-year-old rock climber from New Jersey had died from injuries sustained in fall in New York. The accident happened at the Mohonk Preserve in Gardiner, New York around 1:30 on Sunday afternoon. Officials say Stephanie Prezant, age ...  

Nestled between the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound to the West and the Cascade Mountains with the scenic Cascade Loop drive to the East, and only 60 miles from Seattle or 90 miles from Vancouver, B.C., Mount Vernon is the gateway to Skagit County.  

Cascade Management Group Inc. takes its name from the town of Cascade, which is in the mountains near the border of Pennsylvania. The newly incorporated company of about seven people, including advisors, aims to provide professional consulting ...  

Chiloquin, Illinois Valley and Glendale also competed in the meet along with the host Rogue River team. The teams east of the Cascade Mountains head to Lakeview Saturday for the annual Tallman track and field meet. In Tuesday’s boys competition ...  

A SNAPPER thought his vision had clouded over when he took a photograph of a foggy mountain — and noticed a daredevil climber perched on top of the ... to kill his family by new love’HUSBAND killed estranged wife, baby son & father-in-law in house ...  

From there, a deadly cascade of missteps combined with the vagaries of wind and fire to produce another tragedy in the Rocky Mountains, new documents obtained this week show. The 6-square-mile blaze killed three people, destroyed dozens of homes ...  

SEATTLE (AP) -- The National Weather Service says heavy snow in the Cascades Thursday makes for winter driving conditions for drivers in the passes. Forecasters expect 1 to 2 feet of snow in the mountains from the latest storm as winds and rain ...  

SEATTLE -- The National Weather Service says heavy snow in the Cascade Range on Thursday makes for winter driving conditions in the passes. Forecasters expect 1 to 2 feet of snow in the mountains from the latest storm as winds and rain buffet ...  

MAINLING, Tibet, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Two rescue teams were dispatched Sunday to the site of an avalanche that killed two people and trapped another ... climb eight mountains to reach the area where the climbers are trapped. A second team departed at 6 ...  

TOKYO - Eight elderly mountaineers who went missing in Japan’s Northern Alps following a snowstorm were confirmed dead on Saturday after some of them were evacuated by helicopter, police said. A group of six climbers in their 60s and 70s were spotted ...  

Bowed but unbroken, climber Lt. Col. Edward Strutt made a pledge that at the ... The team were forced to turn back after an avalanche killed seven Sherpas who were helping carry equipment. But International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin ...  

The mountain is considered both technically difficult and avalanche-prone and has a much higher death rate among climbers than Everest, the world's highest peak. Kano, Nigeria (AFP) May 5, 2012 - Torrential rains and strong winds killed at least eight ...  

Pasang was killed in a massive avalanche that also took the lives of ... Outreach Project — a nonprofit charitable organization conceived out of the idea that climbers and trekkers can and should give back to communities surrounding expedition sites.  

A 12,000-pound block of rock 16 to 20 feet long, three feet wide, and a foot thick dislodged by the leader killed the Norwegian climbers Bjørn-Eivind Årtun, 45, and Stein-Ivar Gravdal, 37, according to the accident report released by the Rogaland Alpine ...  

Climbers like to traverse the waterfall in the winter ... READ THE FULL DETAILS INSIDE>>>>> FIRST ON KHQ.COM: Identity Of Fisherman Killed On Waitts Lake Released; Body Found FIRST ON KHQ.COM: Identity Of Fisherman Killed On Waitts Lake Released KHQ.COM ...  

Take a hike into history in the Cascades this weekend. An easy trail into the mountains will reveal remnants of a long ago, isolated Old West town that was once the center of a booming mining operation. At the far end of the Mountain Loop Highway ...  

A South Korean man aged 44, a 61-year-old German man and a Nepal-born Canadian woman were all killed on Saturday. A Chinese climber and his local mountain guide are still missing. The tragedy brings this year's death toll on the world's highest peak to five.  

Officials in Nepal last night confirmed a German doctor, a Nepalese-Canadian businesswoman, and a Chinese man had died on May 19th as they descended the peak as part of the Eco Everest Expedition to clean debris from the mountain. A South Korean climber ...  

Among the others killed were a 61-year-old German doctor Eberhard Schaaf, South Korean Song Won-Bin, who had been missing since Saturday. The official said a Chinese climber and Nepalese mountain guide were also reported missing. With this the number of ...  

Two other climbers, a Chinese national and his Nepalese Sherpa guide, are reported missing. According to CNN: With these three deaths the number of people killed on Everest this year has reached five, ministry official Dipendra Poudel said. Two Nepali ...  

FOUR climbers from Germany, South Korea ... said that a 33-year-old Nepali-born Canadian woman named Shriya Shah had also been killed on Sunday. Ms Shah was born in Kathmandu and grew up in Mumbai, India, according to her website. She lived in Toronto ...  

The Associated Press on Monday toured the shelter in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle where Peter Keller fled after authorities say he killed his wife and teenage daughter at their North Bend home. Keller had spent eight years building the bunker ...  

By dinner at 7 pm you are crossing Washington State's Cascade Mountains via the longest rail tunnel in the United States at 12.5km long, and by the time your purser has made up your bunk, you are in Idaho amid the Rockies. The panoramic observation car ...  

BLEWETT PASS — The National Weather Service has issued a winter snow advisory for the eastern slopes of the Cascades today. A late-season storm is expected to drop about 4 inches of snow over Blewett Pass and as much as 8 inches in higher elevations.  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory's Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano, particularly ...  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory's Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano, particularly ...  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory’s Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano, particularly ...  

My walk with Justin ended in the mist-dense Cascade Mountains on a garden stage at the end of a lily-lined aisle. Storm clouds, gray, navy and low, illuminated the flowers, the fine clothing, the glassware in soft, important light. The mist was backlit by ...  

Voted "America's Best Trail Running Town" by the editors of Outside Magazine, Bend is situated in the heart of Central Oregon at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Mature Ponderosa Pine Trees and sagebrush are evidence of the town’s 300 sunny days ...  

Get ready for three days of off-road adventure riding in the Cascade Mountains of Central Washington State. We're excited to return to Leavenworth, Washington where; for the third year in a row RawHyde and Touratech are teaming up to bring you three days ...  

Nestled in the pristine Pacific Northwest between the Cascades Mountains and the San Juan Islands overlooking Bellingham Bay, Western Washington University, in Bellingham, is ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the finest masters-granting university in ...  

A week ago, Alaska Dispatch reported at length on a National Park Service investigation into the death of one climber, the maiming of another, and injuries to two more stemming from a 2011 accident just below the summit of 20,320-foot Mount McKinley.  

Authorities in Washington State have found the body of a man wanted for killing his wife and teenage daughter in an elaborate bunker they had surrounded in the Cascade Mountains. The King County Sheriff's Office said they located the body of Peter Keller ...  

NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state man who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a mountain bunker Saturday spent eight years carving his hideout in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Authorities had spent a week looking for ...  

A raid on a heavily fortified underground bunker near Seattle in the Cascade Mountains foothills has ended a tense week for law enforcement officials tracking a survivalist suspected of killing his wife, daughter and pets. After a 22-hour standoff ...  

He says the purpose of the settlement is to allow the department to move forward. A raid on a heavily fortified underground bunker in the Cascade Mountains foothills has ended a tense week for law enforcement officials tracking a survivalist suspected of ...  

He was grateful after an awful start to the day – attending a horrific crash at Turangi that killed three American students ... on the ice we'd come too far to climb back up," rescued climber Ivan Camponogara told 3News. The rescue chopper found ...  

The air was also a bit unstable, and all we needed were the Cascade Mountains to provide lift and, voila!, thunderstorms. It was even more rare to have the pattern repeat itself for a second day and have isolated storms just happen to find their ...  

The air was also a bit unstable, and all we needed were the Cascade Mountains to provide lift and, voila!, thunderstorms. It was even more rare to have the pattern repeat itself for a second day and have isolated storms just happen to find their ...  

After a nearly 23-hour standoff, police blew up the top of an elaborate bunker in the Cascade Mountains on Saturday and found the body of a man inside _ believed to be that of a survivalist wanted in the deaths of his wife and daughter last weekend.  

After a nearly 23-hour standoff, police blew up the top of an elaborate bunker in the Cascade Mountains on Saturday, April 28, 2012, and found the body of a man inside believed to be that of Keller, a survivalist wanted in the deaths of his wife ...  

SEATTLE (AP) — The National Weather Service says heavy snow in the Cascades on Thursday is making for winter driving conditions for drivers in the passes. Forecasters expect 1 to 2 feet of snow in the mountains from the latest storm as winds ...  

This jagged cliff system, which was carved by the Cumberland River, is popular with local rock climbers and hikers. The bluff was supposedly named after a girl who fell from the bluff while trying to escape hostile Native Americans in the early ...  

Despite storms that hit California in March and April, the snowpack in the state's mountain ranges remains extremely low. Surveys of the snow conducted in recent days in the Sierra and Cascade mountains show the snowpack at 60 percent below the ...  

Despite storms that hit California in March and April, the snowpack in the state's mountain ranges remains extremely low. Surveys of the snow conducted in recent days in the Sierra and Cascade mountains show the snowpack at 60 percent below the ...  

"He is one of the great explorers of our time." If you've kicked around the Cascade or Olympic mountains for any length of time, you've probably heard the story of Molenaar's part in what has become known as "The Belay." Dee was a member of the ...  

Acknowledging the potential fallibility of the numbers, the other day in Matthew's series preview, he put the Mariners at about 24 runs below average as a team. That ranked them 22nd in baseball, or to put it another way, that ranked them ninth ...  

NORTH BEND, Washington — Authorities in Washington state say they've found a body in an elaborate bunker they had surrounded in the Cascade Mountains, and it appears to be that of a man wanted for killing his wife and teenage daughter last weekend.  

NORTH BEND, Washington — Authorities in Washington state say they've found a body in an elaborate bunker they had surrounded in the Cascade Mountains, and it appears to be that of a man wanted for killing his wife and teenage daughter last weekend.  

This natural-color image shows the varied landscape features of that region. Snow caps the peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the Cascades, and isolated mountains outside these ranges. Snow cover recedes in these mountain ranges as summer progresses ...  

KATMANDU, Nepal — A wave of climbers headed for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday and several people already had made it to the summit in what is expected to be another busy weekend on the top of the world. Last weekend, four climbers died ...  

SEATTLE -- The National Weather Service says heavy snow in the Cascades Thursday makes for winter driving conditions for drivers in the passes. Forecasters expect 1 to 2 feet of snow in the mountains from the latest storm as winds and rain ...  

When Harry was in Washington on Monday he announced from the podium the news that the injured veterans of the Walking With The Wounded Everest 2012 Expedition, of which he is patron, had been forced to turn back, "frustrated from reaching the ...  

Four climbers died Saturday and another one possibly missing on Mount Everest according to a report on ABC News. One of those killed was a Canadian. The victims were identified as Nepal-born Canadian Shriya Shah, German doctor Eberhard Schaaf ...  

Up to a foot of new snow is possible in the Cascade Mountains by early Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. The service issued a winter weather advisory early today as a cold front moves across the Cascades, followed by a moist ...  

From Hamilton Mountain the runners will be treated with incredible views of the Columbia River Gorge and the surrounding Cascade Mountains including Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams. Like most of Rainshadow Running’s other races this race is no walk in ...  

Katie Larson said. A bomb squad cleared the bunker, built into a ridge in the Cascade Mountains, to make sure there were no booby-traps before detectives entered. Officers shouted warnings before blowing the roof, Larson said. Tear gas pumped ...  

AFTER an almost 23-hour stand-off, police blew up the top of an elaborate bunker in the Cascade Mountains of the US yesterday and found the body of a man inside - believed to be that of a survivalist wanted in the deaths of his wife and daughter.  

This change in wind direction not only cuts off the cool ocean air, but as it descends the Cascade Mountains it compresses with the force of gravity.  Compressional heating causes temperatures to soar well above normal.  The average high for ...  

the Norwood climbers and life partners who were killed in an avalanche while attempting to summit the 6,204-meter Mount Genyen in China in 2006. The group — which is comprised of climber friends and family members of Fowler and Boskoff — has ...  

the Norwood climbers and life partners who were killed in an avalanche while attempting to summit the 6,204-meter Mount Genyen in China in 2006. The group — which is comprised of climber friends and family members of Fowler and Boskoff — has ...  

Sources in the crime branch said the police had taken a few mountain climbers along to look for the remaining ... According to Palande, he and his associates had killed Kakkar and chopped his body in the bathroom and washed the floor several ...  

Snowpack in Washington's Cascade Mountains is 140 percent of average and while a major thaw is predicted, it's normal and there should be plenty of irrigation water for farms through summer, the state's lead water supply expert says. The one ...  

"However, Suzanne is an amazing hill climber and she went into the final race in second ... cyclists around the world remember fellow riders who have been injured or killed while on their bicycles. A Bike Bakersfield spokesman said the "Ride ...  

But Troy Chaffee knew where to look for him. From photos discovered at Keller's home, King County sheriff's detectives deduced that he probably headed into the Cascade Mountains, to Rattlesnake Ridge, a tall hump of forested rock where he'd ...  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory’s Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano ...  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory’s Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano ...  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory's Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano ...  

Some thunderstorms formed off the Cascade Mountains early Friday afternoon and then winds in the upper atmosphere steered the storms southwest into the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett areas. Reports of thunder and lightning were scattered across the ...  

The North Cascades are one of those features that make living in a subduction zone worth the risk. Those jagged mountains contain an amazing variety of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks – you can see all three of your basics in a day.  

"If a climber is caught in an avalanche or other "movement" event ... But the kinds of things  he's doing can get you killed. I'm concerned." The Pettijohns, including Karl and his sister, Diana (Normanton), lived with their parents, Caryl ...  

Mount Everest claimed four climbers this weekend, making it one of the deadliest on the mountain in history. Nepal officials reportedly said four climbers died amid a traffic jam of climbers when it hosted around 200 who were attempting to ...  

Tshering said the race to the summit on Saturday meant that climbers likely expended all their energy on the way up and had little left for the descent. The deadliest day on Everest was May 10, 1996, when eight people were killed. The main ...  

"No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face ... He came down with a savage case of amoebic dysentery that nearly killed him. In one week he lost 30 pounds off an already lean frame. The aftereffects plagued him for years.  

Chaput said it could be very useful for imaging the innards of volcanoes in the Cascades Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Seismic interferometry uses a handy, natural tool — essentially the volcano's own burps — as the ink, and seismic ...  

Almost 100 climbers have been killed on the job, 50 of them on cell sites. From their perch atop the contracting chain, carriers typically set many of the crucial parameters for work on cell sites, including deadlines, pay rates and even ...  

YAKIMA, Wash. — Up to a foot of new snow is possible in the Cascade Mountains by early Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. The service issued a winter weather advisory early today as a cold front moves across the Cascades ...  

The Carpenter Snow Creek site covers about 14 square miles in the Little Belt Mountains of southern Cascade County near the town of Neihart. Mine tailings, waste rock and acid mine drainage from scores of abandoned mines litter the site ...  

Her mother, Martha, says they travel 150 miles each way to get Lindsay to and from practice, along a highway that includes passing through the Cascade Mountains. “The travel time is extreme,” says Martha, “but it’s just what we have to do.”  

Rivers draining from Oregon's Cascade Mountains are expected to have average to above average volume this summer, providing water for agricultural irrigators and "exciting recreation opportunities" for rafters and other recreationalists ...  

“No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face ... He came down with a savage case of amoebic dysentery that nearly killed him. In one week he lost 30 pounds off an already-lean frame. The aftereffects plagued him for ...  

“No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face ... He came down with a savage case of amoebic dysentery that nearly killed him. In one week he lost 30 pounds off an already-lean frame. The aftereffects plagued him for ...  

“No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face ... He came down with a savage case of amoebic dysentery that nearly killed him. In one week he lost 30 pounds off an already-lean frame. The aftereffects plagued him for ...  

Having served on both sides of the Cascades, he said, he’s aware of the political ... sure we realize how to move forward on job creation on both sides of the mountains,” he said. Inslee wants to reinvigorate the Farmworker Housing ...  

He said communications with the ground team were difficult and it was still unclear what the climbers would find ... NATO says an attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform has killed one of its service members in the country's east.  

A double-murder suspect described as having a “survivalist mentality” was found dead – an apparent suicide – over the weekend in a heavily fortified bunker he built on a hillside in the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle. Peter A.  

Disaster hit the expedition on the way down when an avalanche killed seven Indian members of the party ... Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit in 1953.  

the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in Fossil ... whereas the two genetically distinct populations in the Sierra/Cascades and Black Hills are much smaller and "genetically isolated."  

Korenge by a climber early Saturday. They were airlifted to a nearby ... Eight held for alleged links with Ahmedabad blasts. Eight killed, four injured in road mishaps in Rajasthan.  

That is what people do when they look for potential customers.' Syrian forces have killed at least five people in a raid on a Sunni farming village on the Lebanon border.