Two men died while climbing in the Wind River Range in western Wyoming on Friday afternoon, six days after a double climbing fatality in Grand Teton National Park, . The victims were identified by the Fremont County coroner鈥檚 office as Keith Murray Henderson (57)聽of Lander, Wyoming, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Jonathan Peter MacDonald (23) of聽Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Fremont County Undersheriff Ryan D. Lee told the AP another climber witnessed the two fall while rappelling down the 11,884-foot-tall聽Pingora Peak聽in the Cirque of Towers area.聽The bodies were transported by helicopter to Lander, Wyoming,聽on Friday afternoon.
Lee told the AP that the climbers were experienced and Fremont County Search and Rescue is inspecting their gear.
鈥淲e're looking at everything, whether it was technique, the way things were rigged up, or whether it was a failure in a piece of equipment,” Lee told the AP.
Less than a week earlier, two women fell approximately 200 feet to their deaths while climbing Teewinot Mountain in Grand Teton National Park.