An experienced climber has died after falling 3,000 feet off the largest mountain in North America.

On June 2, Alex Chiu, an avid outdoorist, climber, and mountaineer, was living his dream of scaling Mount McKinley. As he was mountaineering the West Buttress route of the mountain, Chiu suddenly fell. The fall was more than 3,000 feet off the side of Mount McKinley, toward the Peters Glacier.

Chiu was not wearing a harness or ropes as he mountaineered Mount McKinley, a way of ascending and descending the mountain using skis.

In an Instagram post dated May 19, it was clear how passionate Chiu was about scaling Mount McKinley , stating he did not want to know what a "dream deferred" felt like.

Sadly, Chiu was never able to see his dream realized, as his young life was cut short in his a

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