...hanging out in bad weather, but it's just all part of the nature of climbing here," said Roger Robinson, lead climbing ranger at the Talkeetna station. Meteorologists expected the heavy winds to create a whiteout through Wednesday at altitudes...

...former ranger Mike Gauthier who said he got a call early Wednesday describing the accident. Bacher says Rainier's lead climbing ranger David Gottlieb was climbing with Puryear at the time. Gauthier says Gottlieb found that Puryear broke through...

...no sense of direction, no sense of movement. "It doesn't even have to be blowing," said Mike Gauthier, lead climbing ranger at Mount Rainier National Park. Some climb Mount Rainier in the winter just for the added outdoor survival challenges...