Authorities suspect the group's anchor point failed, sending four men plummeting. On Wednesday, the survivor was in ...

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Anton Tselykh managed to extricated himself from ropes, gear and debris before trekking over rough terrain, driving 40 miles ...

After examining the equipment late Monday, it appeared the anchor point — a piton — ripped out of the rock, Cristina Woodworth, who leads the sheriff’s search and rescue team. “You could ...

They found a piton — basically a small metal spike that is driven into rock cracks or ice and used as anchors by climbers — that was still clipped into the climbers' ropes. Pitons are often ...

As Manzanares makes her way up the jagged crevices of the mountain, she attaches her quickdraw, which has two carabiners, to an anchor. “Clipping!” she says to Junek after each anchor until ...