GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK ... Rob Thomas had just scaled Friction Pitch, a sheer 100-foot wall that rises to within 800 feet of the mountaintop, and was scrambling up to another spot.

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK ... Rob Thomas had just scaled Friction Pitch, a sheer, 100-foot wall that rises to within 800 feet of the mountaintop, and was scrambling up to another spot.

a dangling climber asks as rangers finally reach him in this last installment of “Courage on Friction Pitch ... climbers dead and injured high in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo.

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK ... Fifty feet below, Rod Liberal dangled off Friction Pitch in a ghastly upside-down V. Holm figured his back was broken. "Rod!" he yelled. He heard moans below.

The ground fell away and Larson trailed the bird through the air above Grand Teton National Park ... husband and friends -- huddled atop the Friction Pitch of Exum Ridge. Everyone except the ...

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK ... Rob Thomas had just scaled Friction Pitch, a sheer 100-foot wall that rises to within 800 feet of the mountaintop, and was scrambling up to another spot.

The Grand Teton, at 13,770 feet the grandest peak ... a chilling account of a climber frozen in fear on the notorious Friction Pitch in one of my father's magazines. I've read plenty more since ...

(AP) — Two climbers who were hit by lightning that also killed a companion on the Grand Teton peak said ... at about 3:45 p.m. Saturday on the Friction Pitch of the 13,770-foot-high peak's ...

An Idaho climber fell from the Owen Chimney pitch on the Owen-Spalding route of the Grand Teton and was pronounced dead at the scene Thursday. Braydan Duree, of Kuna, was hiking with two other ...

(AP) -- Two climbers who were hit by lightning that killed a companion on the Grand Teton said pain and ... at about 3:45 p.m. Saturday on the Friction Pitch of the 13,770-foot-high peak's Exum ...