National Park Service rangers recovered the body of a ski mountaineer on Wednesday who fell 3,000 feet to his death off the West Buttress of Denali.

The agency identified the victim as 41-year-old Alex Chiu of Seattle.

Denali National Park and Preserve spokesperson Amber Smigiel said it’s likely that Chiu died after he slipped from a ledge and fell onto the rocky face of the Peters Glacier.

“His body was found at the bottom of the 3,000-foot slope of the glacier,” she said.

In 2010, an un-roped French mountaineer fell to his death near the same location, park officials said.

Chiu was one of three ski mountaineers who set out on an expedition Monday to ascend the peak, recently renamed Mount McKinley by President Trump. When they reached the 12,000-foot level, two of the mounta

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