{"id":49981,"date":"2019-06-28T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/injured-climber-rescued-from-mendenhall-towers-in-critical-condition\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T22:38:30","slug":"injured-climber-rescued-from-mendenhall-towers-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/injured-climber-rescued-from-mendenhall-towers-in-critical-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Injured climber dies after being rescued off Mendenhall Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old climber from Washington who was injured on the Mendenhall Towers near Juneau has died from his injuries, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett Regional Hospital spokeswoman Katie Bausler confirmed that Bryson Allen died Friday around 11:30 a.m. Next of kin has been notified, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was climbing the towers, jagged peaks that rise nearly 7,000 feet above the Juneau Icefield, with two others, 25-year-old Isaac Hardy from New York and 24-year-old Bowen Schwanke of Juneau, according to Alaska State Troopers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dps.alaska.gov\/dailydispatch\/Home\/Display?dateReceived=6\/28\/2019%2012:00:00%20AM\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska State Trooper dispatch<\/a> states Allen was rappelling down the tower when his anchor released and he fell 20 to 30 feet to a ledge below, where he became unconscious. He was hoisted off the mountain by a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka. The Coast Guard released video of the rescue Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/embed\/693964\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The two other climbers were not injured, and safely returned to their base camp after Allen was medevaced out by helicopter. He was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, a little before 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Mendenhall Towers provide a backdrop to the Mendenhall Glacier and attract climbers from near and far.<\/p>\n<p>Two experienced climbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/update-climbers-presumed-deceased-after-searchers-find-ropes-in-crevasse\/\" target=\"_blank\">perished on the peak<\/a> in March 2018, local climber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mountaineers-end-search-for-climbers-remains-on-mendenhall-towers\/\" target=\"_blank\">George &ldquo;Ryan&rdquo; Johnson and British Columbia climber Marc-Andr&#233; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mountaineers-end-search-for-climbers-remains-on-mendenhall-towers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leclerc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was a 23-year-old climber from Washington. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":49982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,319],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49981"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}