PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s office has confirmed that two bodies recovered from Mount Hood are the remains of climbers missing and presumed dead since December.
Clackamas County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Strovink says the remains are those of 29-year-old Katie Nolan of Portland, and 25-year-old Anthony Vietti of Longview, Wash. He said Thursday evening the medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of death.
A Portland Mountain Rescue team discovered a second body early Thursday while trying to recover remains spotted a few days earlier. Strovink says the two were found near each other but were not in a snow cave or shelter. They were found at about the 9,700-foot level.
Nolan and Vietti were in a party of three reported missing during an attempt to climb the 11,239-foot peak on Dec. 11. Searchers found one climber, Luke Gullberg of Des Moines, Wash., dead from hypothermia on Dec. 12.
