6 climbers including two AAI guides missing on Liberty Ridge?

reuters.com/article/2014/05…

Not good. Espically if they had a working Sat phone and havent used it.

Hoping for a good result! Good luck to SAR.

blogs.seattletimes.com/toda…

This is the heaviest thing I think I've dealt with in my relatively short mountaineering career: I was on that route less than a week ago. Holy shit. I'm really shaken up by this.

NPS wrote:"Air and ground searches were suspended, four hours before nightfall."..."Helicopters got low enough to pick up pings from avalanche beacons, buried in the snow, said Fawn Bauer, spokeswoman for the National Park Service."

Are they not going to probe and dig for survivors????

edit:

"But as searchers combed the area by helicopter on Saturday, pings were located from all six of their emergency beacons at the base of a rockfall at the 9,000-foot level. There was no activity detected.

Searchers then spotted debris and no signs of life at the site. It is believed that the bodies of all six climbers are there, and it appears they fell thousands of feet.

The search was called off for the day, and Wold said there is no way searchers can access the area at this time."

komonews.com/news/local/Sea…

I guess that explains it.

Sad day.

MarktheCPA wrote: Are they not going to probe and dig for survivors????

This is really heart breaking to hear, and so early in the season, too. Mark, the liberty wall is constantly calving and avalanching and to make an effort to dig and recover the climbers would be highly dangerous for the rescuers. Thoughts with their families.

Just for clarity, from what I have read the climbers fell to the Carbon Glacier side below the Willis Wall not Liberty Wall. It sounds as though they were hit by an avalanche whilst camped somewhere above the Black Pyramid that swept them down what is known as Thermogensis.

Any news or updates?

Still no ground search due to serious rockfall and avalanche danger in the area of concern. The park officials have given up hope for rescue and have moved to a recovery operation. They have found their gear strewn out across a few thousand feet and have confirmed 6 beacon signals under a large pile of ice/snow/rock.