Parks Canada rescues 3 climbers stranded on Mount Logan

Parks Canada has released some video from the rescue Thursday of three stranded climbers from Yukon's Mount Logan, located in Kluane National Park.

Anne Morin, a field unit superintendent for Parks Canada, said a Parks Canada rescue team from Kluane went in to retrieve the climbers, supported by the visitor safety team in Banff, a pilot from Trans North Helicopters, and members from the U.S. National Parks Service in Denali National Park in Alaska. 

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The three climbers, all men, are from Canada and Alaska. Two of the men had previous experience on Mount Logan.

Sian Williams of Icefield Discovery, a company which expedites climbers to the mountain, said the company had flown the climbers to the East Ridge of Mount Logan three weeks ago.

Clint Walker, operations manager for Trans North Helicopters, said Dion Parker, the company's base manager in Haines Junction, made three round trips in a AS350 B3 helicopter from a staging area near the base of the mountain to the extraction point at an elevation of around 5,300 metres.

The company had a second high-altitude equipped helicopter standing by at the Haines Junction base if needed.

The climbers and team were all safely in Haines Junction by 10:30 p.m. Thursday night.

Morin added that "as always, [the rescuers] are a very impressive and professional team that do us all very proud."