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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — A climber is in the hospital after being rescued from a crevasse on Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier National Park officials say three people climbed the mountain on Saturday and were descending on skis and snowboards when a 24-year-old female fell about 100 feet (30 meters) into a crevasse on the Emmons Glacier on the mountain's east side at an elevation of a

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a 32-year-old Seattle climber has died in a 600-foot fall on Mount Hood. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office identified the climber Monday as John Thorton Jenkins of Seattle. Authorities say Jenkins suffered severe injuries after sliding down steep terrain Sunday morning...

Rescue crews helped save a climber who had fallen about 60 feet off a cliff near Naches on Saturday. Yakima County sheriff's deputies say the 29-year-old man from Belliingham was climbing a cliff face when an anchor he had set pulled out of a rock and sent him falling down the cliff face.