I went up on Saturday and there were some blood stains in the snow. A helicopter was circling around all morning asking about a backpack or somebody who lost a backpack (message was a little unclear from the chopper megaphone). There were a lot of people on the mountain on Saturday, but everyone I talked to didn't know what was going on.
When I was downclimbing the final 400, I talked with a guide belaying his two clients down, and he said that there was an accident on Friday - somebody had fallen down.
I found (what I think is) the guy's shirt frozen to a rock at the rock band near the bottom of the final 400.
Rest in peace.
Be careful out there, folks.
Looking up the final 400 from the notch
Looking west from the notch, across the north face
Looking down the final 400 from the topout
