TALKEETNA, Alaska (AP) The Latest on the rescue of two climbers in separate incidents on Denali (all times local):
4:40 p.m.
Denali National Park mountaineering ranger Frank Preston says it took rescuers about 12 hours before they could reach a climber who fell 40-feet (12.2 meters) into a glacier crevasse on North America’s tallest mountain.
Preston says it took another three hours to chip away at ice to widen the crevasse to lift out 38-year-old Martin Takac of Trmava, Slovakia.
Takac fell into the crevasse late Sunday night as he was descending 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) Denali with another climber.