ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four Japanese climbers swept into a crevasse by an avalanche are among 120 people who have died on Alaska’s Mount McKinley and bring to 44 the number of bodies remaining on North America’s tallest mountain.
Searchers say sometimes recovering a body is too dangerous. Other times the final resting place on the 20,320-foot mountain is unknown.
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