trysail
Catch Me Who Can
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2005
- Posts
- 25,593
2 climbers die in fall in Grand Teton National Park
Aug. 23, 2015
MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) — Two women died when they fell about 200 feet while trying to climb a mountain Grand Teton National Park.
The National Park Service says the accident occurred around 11 a.m. Saturday on the 12,300-foot Teewinot (tee-WIN'-aht) Mountain, the sixth-tallest peak in the Teton Range.
The agency identified the victims as 27-year-old Tyler Strandberg and 28-year-old Catherine Nix, both of Jackson. Their bodies were recovered from a rocky ledge at an elevation of about 11,500 feet.
more