Alaska rangers recover body of man who died from fall on North America’s tallest peak

Mount McKinley appears above a fog layer in the early morning hours of 14 May in Denali national park, Alaska. Photograph: Lance King/Getty Images

Mountaineering rangers in Alaska recovered the body of a Seattle man who died after falling 3,000ft from a climbing route on Denali, or Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America.

The National Park Service said that Alex Chiu, 41, was on the treacherous mountain’s west buttress route when he fell from a location called Squirrel Point, about 12,000ft above sea level.