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A federal court ruled that President Trump’s removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage, reporting from Washington, has ...
The sole survivor of the fall, Anton Tselykh, told the Okanogan County Sheriff's Office Wednesday the climbers were clipped into the piton — a type of metal spike driven into rock to act as an ...
On their way down, they attached their ropes to a piton — a metal spike pounded into rock cracks or ice and used to secure ropes — that had been placed by a past climber. As one of the men ...
Three climbers have died after they fell hundreds of feet on to jagged rock, while the survival of one man in the group is being called "miraculous". Vishnu Irigireddy, 48, Tim Nguyen, 63 ...
As they climbed down, the four attached their ropes to a piton — a metal spike pounded into rock cracks or ice and used to secure ropes — that had been placed by a past climber. As one of the ...
The group was rappelling down the Early Winters Spires in the North Cascade Range when a crucial anchor, known as a piton, failed. One climber was actively rappelling off the metal spike ...
It's believed an anchor they were using, called a piton, became dislodged and all climbers fell at the same time, connected to each other by ropes. They plunged about 200 feet (60 metres ...
It appears that the climbers had clipped into a single piton, a small metal spike that had been placed into the rock some time ago and was left there, she said. A group of expert climbers examined the ...
One mountain climber's survival is being called "miraculous" after a 200-foot fall onto jagged rock in Washington state Sunday that killed the three other men in his group. One man, Anton Tselykh ...
It was late in the afternoon and lightly snowing when four rock climbers, working their way up a steep gully between two peaks in Washington’s North Cascades Range, decided to turn around for a ...