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DENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska (WJW) - A Seattle man's body was recovered in Alaska after he fell about 3,000 feet while hiking on Mount McKinley this week, the National Park Service said.

On Monday, two members of Alex Chiu's expedition reported that the 41-year-old un-roped ski mountaineer was climbing on the route to Peters Glacier when he fell, park officials said.

The witnesses told park rangers that they lowered over the edge as far as possible, but they couldn't see or hear Chiu.

According to the National Park Service, because of high winds and snowy conditions, search and rescue crews could not reach the site where Chiu fell until early Wednesday morning.

"Clearing weather on the north side of the Alaska Range provided the oppor

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