A Canadian man is lucky to be alive after surviving an almost 1,000-foot fall from Alaska’s Denali Pass on Monday night.
The mountaineer, identified as 31-year-old Adam Rawski of Barnaby, British Columbia, fell at about 6 p.m. and suffered "multiple traumatic injuries," according to a news release from Denali National Park and Preserve.
He was unresponsive when a high-altitude helicopter reached him less than 30 minutes later. "The park’s high-altitude helicopter was already at the Kahiltna Basecamp conducting glacier monitoring surveys and was able to quickly mobilize for an evacuation," officials added.
Several guides also responded to the motionless climber, who was climbing the mountain without any anchoring ropes.
Denali Pass is listed at 18,200 feet above sea level. Climbers at a 17,200-foot camp on Denali’s West Buttress witnessed the fall. Rawski has been taken to an Anchorage hospital, where he’s listed in critical condition.
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