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Two more climbers perish on Peruvian climb, bringing number to eight this season

Frank Bajak

Skift Take

As climbing becomes more popular the real life and death challenges get lost in the promise of the adventure-packed brochures.

Searchers on Saturday found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who apparently plunged to their deaths off a ridge after ascending a glacier-capped 20,000-foot (6,100-meter) Peruvian peak, the rescue coordinator said. "They did summit and they got into trouble on the way down," said coordinator Ted Alexander. "What led to the fall, I cannot tell you now." Gil Weiss, 29, and Ben Horne, 32, fell an estimated 300 meters (nearly 1,000 feet) off a ridge after reaching the west summit of Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range in mid-July, he said. "Unfortunately, they died whenever they fell because they had been there long in the snow," he said from the near

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