NATIONAL BRIEFING / ALASKA
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Two experienced climbers have fallen to their deaths on Alaska’s Mt. McKinley.
National Park Service rangers have recovered the bodies of 39-year-old John Mislow of Newton, Mass., and 36-year-old Andrew Swanson of Minneapolis.
The climbers, both doctors, were roped together when they fell Thursday afternoon along Messner Couloir, a steep, hourglass-shaped snow gully on the 20,320-foot mountain, North America’s tallest peak.
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