A 26-year-old climber went missing while attempting to summit Mount Hood on Saturday, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Matthew Aldridge, of Bend, was trying to summit the mountain via the Newton Clark Headwall with two other climbers who left from the Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort, the sheriff’s office said. The other climbers turned back because of conditions on the mountain, but Aldridge kept climbing. When the other climbers didn’t hear from Aldridge they reported to authorities that he was overdue.

The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office used aircraft, ground searchers and cell phone technology to search for Aldridge on Saturday but was unsuccessful, Sgt. Joel Ives wrote in a news release. Cell phone data suggested Aldrige may have fallen near Pea Grave

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