Alex Chiu, 41, was ascending Mount McKinley's West Buttress climbing route with two others on Monday when he fell at a spot known as Squirrel Point, according to park officials.

Climbers were on an icy Alaska mountain when they saw a man in their group fall 3,000 feet to his death in Denali National Park, officials said. Alex Chiu, 41, of Seattle died June 2 after falling from Mount McKinley’s West Buttress climbing route, the National Park Service said in a June 4 news release.

Poor weather conditions prevented search and rescue from sending a team to locate and recover Chiu's body until early in the morning on June 4.