A new report has detailed some of the key factors that likely contributed to a climbing accident that killed three Seattle-area climbers in the North Cascades.
On May 10, Vishnu Irigireddy, 48, Tim Nguyen, 63, and Oleksander Martynenko, 36, were killed while descending from North Early Winters Spire after a "catastrophic rappel anchor failure" caused them to fall hundreds of feet. Anton Tselykh, 38, from Seattle, miraculously survived the incident despite traumatic injuries.
