Two climbers who were reported missing on Mt. Whitney’s technical Mountaineer’s Route on Tuesday have been found dead.
Two climbers who were reported missing on Mt. Whitney's experts-only Mountaineer's Route on Tuesday have been found dead. Andrew Niziol, 28, of South Lake Tahoe, and Patty Bolan, 29, were identified by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, according to the Sacramento Bee. On Wednesday, a friend who had been climbing with them but got separated on an extremely steep, icy pitch just beneath the summit posted a plea for help from other climbers in a Facebook group devoted to Mt.
' 'I waited there for over an hour and was forced to move down the chute to escape the cold wind, but never saw them,' Cannaert wrote. He noted that Niziol and Bolan both had cell service most of the way up the route but that they had not responded to messages he sent after becoming separated. Climbing down the final 400 in snowy conditions usually requires ropes, crampons and ice axes because a fall on slippery terrain that steep would be almost impossible to stop.
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