A report released Tuesday by the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center says Kennedy searched, then trekked out of the area for help. Hayden Kennedy, a 27-year-old world-class climber, fought his way out from the pileup. “Hayden survived the avalanche but not the unbearable loss of his partner in life,” the father wrote on Facebook. “I see both light and dark in climbing,” he wrote in September on the website Evening Sends. A week before his death, Kennedy wrote honestly of the dangers inherent in pushing the edge in the wild.

Source: thestar October 11, 2017 19:18 UTC