Poor weather conditions prevented search and rescue from sending a team to locate and recover Chiu's body until early in the morning on June 4.

Alex Chiu, 41, died as a result of a 3,000-foot fall from the Mt. McKinley West Buttress climbing route on to the Peters Glacier in Denali National Park.

A Seattle man’s body was recovered in Alaska after he fell about 3,000 feet while hiking on Mount McKinley this week, the National Park Service said. Alex Chiu, 41, fell to his death Monday while on an expedition on the mountain’s West Buttress,