June 27, 2004 - Mountaineering Fatality at Windy Corner
A rockslide killed one climber and injured two others as they were descending the West Buttress route. Sunday night while attached by rope at 13,000 feet, they were approaching Windy Corner when boulders "the size of trucks" fell on four-person team. The fourth person on the rope, a guide, was not injured.
Clint West, 47, died of multiple injuries shortly after the rockslide. West was an experienced climber who lived in Oxfordshire, England, with his wife and three daughters, Coombs said.
National Park Service officials said the spontaneous rockslide included falling boulders from 2 to 10 feet in diameter. National Park Service officials called it highly unusual for a rockslide of that size to occur on the West Buttress route and said they were not sure what caused it.
There have been no other known fatalities on the 20,320-foot Mount McKinley due to rockfalls, Fister said.
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