It’s seems somehow fitting that we have been under a blanket of clouds and rain during most of our time at Denali. When we arrived the ranger told us that a sightseeing plane carrying 4 visitors from Poland had crashed on Denali the previous day. There had been radio contact a number of times just after the crash letting the rescuers know that the 4 passengers and pilot had survived but were injured. A rescue attempt was made, but the weather turned and the rain down here was snow on the mountain. The next day, the skies cleared briefly and they lowered an EMT to the site from a helo who discovered that all had perished under the snow.
Yesterday, they announced that the site is too dangerous to retrieve the bodies.
Say a prayer for the lost and their families.