Body Of Fallen Mt. Hood Climber Recovered

A recovery team has successfully retrieved the body of a New Jersey man who fell to his death on Mt. Hood.  Hood River County Sheriff’s Sgt. Pete Hughes says recovering the body of 57-year-old Robert Cormier took the 18-person team about 17 hours on Wednesday.  Climbers had to pull the body from a crevasse it had slipped into, a task made more difficult by near-vertical terrain and falling rocks.  A dangerous journey to safe ground took several more hours and was complicated by high winds.  A private helicopter was eventually able to move the body.  Cormier had reached the summit of Mt. Hood on May 13, and was seen falling through a ledge of ice and tumbling about 1,000 feet.

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