LONGMIRE, Wash. (AP) — A Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman has identified a climber killed Tuesday when he fell more than 100 feet into a crevasse on the Washington peak.
Spokeswoman Patti Wold says four climbing rangers flown by helicopter to the summit of the 14,410-foot mountain descended to the crevasse at about 13,000 feet and retrieved the body of 33-year-old Tucker Taffe. She described Taffe in a statement as an experienced skier originally from New York. His hometown was not immediately available.
Wold says the rangers prepared his body for airlift off the mountain.
The spokeswoman says Taffe was with three other skiers in an independent climbing party when he skied into a crevasse on the upper Nisqually Glacier.
