The anchor they were using, a metal spike called a piton, appeared to have been placed there by past climbers, he said. They plummeted for about 200 feet into a slanted gulch and then tumbled ...

The anchor they were using, a metal spike called a piton, appeared to have been placed there by past climbers, he said. They plummeted for about 200 feet into a slanted gulch and then tumbled ...

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.

The four men were attached to it somehow, and one of them was rappelling down when that piton came loose from the ... feet of elevation back to a user trail near Highway 20, where their car ...

A climbing group of four met with disaster when the anchor securing their ropes -- a piton -- appears to have failed as they were descending in a steep gully, trying to reach the spire’s base in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each body had to be removed one at a time because of the rough terrain, officials said. A piton, which is a metal spike that is wedged into rock crevices, was also found still clipped to one of ...

The anchor they were using, a metal spike called a piton, appeared to have been placed there by past climbers, he said. They plummeted for about 200 feet (60 meters) into a slanted gulch and then ...

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 ...