Climbers killed in Grand Teton National Park fall

A third member of the climbing party, 26-year-old Rebecca Anderson, also of Jackson, was rescued unhurt from a smaller ledge.

Two women were killed after falling around 200ft while attempting to climb a mountain in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park without ropes.

The three women were trying to climb the East Face of Teewinot Mountain, which the park said is the “typical” and “easiest” route to the summit of Teewinot. Around 11:15 a.m. Anderson called for assistance after Strandberg and Nix had fallen out of sight. She can not go and said she was stranded on a tiny ledge, the park service said in its news release.

She reportedly told dispatchers that she couldn’t see her friends, and tried yelling to them.

After scaling for around an hour or so crisis responders reached Anderson. Their our bodies have been recovered from a rocky ledge at an elevation of about 11,500 ft.

Rangers arrived by helicopter and assessed the conditions of Strandberg and Nix; both were unresponsive after their fall of 200 feet. The climb is not considered technical in nature, the NPS adds.

‘She was short-hauled with an attending ranger to the Lupine Meadows Rescue Cache at 4:19 p.m. The remaining ranger then rappelled back down to Strandberg and Nix’s location’. Though the route is frequently climbed without ropes, the terrain is very steep and good route-finding skills, mountaineering experience, and caution are essential.

The women were apparently attempting to find the proper route up the east face when they fell.