Mt. Baker Fatality
Washington, Mt. Baker, Sholes Glacier
Climb Year: 2017.
Publication Year: 2018.
A 37-year-old man died after falling several hundred feet and landing in a crevasse on the northeast side of Mt. Baker in the afternoon of August 19. The man’s partner also fell and was seriously injured; he was rescued by helicopter. The two were at approximately 6,000 feet on the Sholes Glacier when they fell.