Oregon Climber Dies After 500 Foot Fall
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office announced in a statement on Monday that the unnamed man fell from the mountain at around 9:00 a.m. on Sunday during “an unusually busy weekend for climbing.” The authorities said that the department’s Search & Rescue team “immediately responded” to several calls from witnesses who had seen the man fall while at an elevation of around 10,500 feet. Members of both the Portland Mountain Rescue and the Hood River Crag Rats search-and-rescue teams, who were visiting Mount Hood at the time of the incident, also aided the authorities in the search for the fallen man....