A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on North America's tallest peak, officials said Wednesday — the second death of this year's climbing season on Alaska's Mount McKinley.

The incident is the second climbing death, but the first avalanche related, on Mt. McKinley/Denali this season. 41 year old mountaineer Alex Chiu died after falling 3,000 feet on Denali’s West ...

Earlier this month, Alex Chiu, a ski mountaineer from Seattle, died from a 3,000-foot (about 900-meter) fall on the mountain’s West Buttress climbing route.