Name of Mt. Wake Climbing Fatality Released

Name of Mt. Wake Climbing Fatality Released

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on April 27, 2007. It is reproduced in full below.

National Park Service officials have released the name of the climber who died on Monday, April 23 on Mt. Wake in Denali National Park and Preserve. Lara-Karena Kellogg, age 38, of Seattle, Washington died from injuries sustained in a 1,000-foot fall that occurred while rappelling the technical Northeast Ridge. Her climbing partner did not directly witness the fall, and it remains unknown exactly what caused the rappelling accident.

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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