PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon State Medical Examiner's office has confirmed two bodies recovered from Mount Hood are the remains of climbers missing and presumed dead since December.
Clackamas County sheriff's spokesman Jim Strovink says the remains are those of 29-year-old Katie Nolan of Portland, and 25-year-old Anthony Vietti of Longview, Wash. He said Thursday evening the medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of death.
A Portland Mountain Rescue team discovered a second body early Thursday while trying to recover remains spotted a few days earlier. Strovink says the bodies were found near each other but were not in a snow cave or shelter. They were found at about the 9,700-foot level.
Nolan and Vietti were in a party of three reported missing during an attempt to climb the 11,239-foot peak on Dec. 11. Searchers found one climber, Luke Gullberg of Des Moines, Wash., dead from hypothermia on Dec. 12.
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OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Authorities have found the bodies of two people near the summit of Oregon's Mount Hood, and they may be a pair of climbers who went missing last year.
Clackamas County sheriff's deputies say they found the remains Thursday after launching an effort to recover a body recently found in a remote area above the timberline.
The first body is believed to be Longview, Wash., climber Anthony Vietti. The second may be one of his companions, Katie Nolan of Portland. But no positive identification has been made.
Vietti and Nolan were climbing with Luke Gullberg of Des Moines, Wash., whose body was found a few days after the group went missing last December.
The recovery team includes members of Portland Mountain Rescue and the Army National Guard.
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