Heavy snow and bad light has hampered rescue efforts for two climbers lost on Mt. Hood. Yesterday authorizes said they found 26-year-old Luke Gullberg dead at about 9,000 feet. About 30 people continue searching the mountainside for the other missing climbers; none of the lost climbers carried locator beacons.

At the Bozeman Ice Festival world class climber Guy Lacelle died Thursday when an avalanche swept him away at 9:30am. The accident occurred when a team above Lacelle triggered the small slide.

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