As one of the men began rappelling off the piton, it ripped out of the mountain ... like ice tool — down the mountain. “There is no trail, basically wild,” Tselykh described to dispatch.

As one of the men began rappelling off the piton, it ripped out of the mountain ... like ice tool — down the mountain. "There is no trail, basically wild," Tselykh described to dispatch.

They found a piton — basically a small metal spike that is driven into rock cracks or ice and used as anchors by climbers — that was still clipped into the climbers' ropes. Pitons are often ...

As they climbed down, the four attached their ropes to a piton — a metal spike pounded into rock cracks or ice and used to secure ropes — that had been placed by a past climber. As one of the ...