Winter Storm On Mt. Rainier Traps Climbers

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — A park official says one climber has likely died from hypothermia on Mount Rainier after he and his climbing partner were caught in a winter storm over the weekend.

Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patti Wold says rescue crews have not yet been able to reach the 58-year-old man from Norway. He and a 41-year-old Canadian woman took shelter at about 11,000 feet when a fierce winter storm hit the mountain Saturday night.

Wold says other climbers on Sunday saw the woman descending the mountain and escorted her to Camp Muir, the 10,188-foot base camp. She's doing OK and will be taken to a local hospital.

A Chinook helicopter crew and others were working Monday to reach the climbers and snowshoer.