Dramatic details arise after the climber survives a fall of 400 feet, in which 3 friends in the state of Washington were killed

A rock climber who fell hundreds of foot and fell off a steep slut in Washington's North Cascades Mountains, survived the fall, the fall killed his three companionsWandered to his car in the dark and then drove to a coin phone to call help, the authorities announced on Tuesday.

The surviving climber Anton Tslelykh (38), which was selected from ropes, helmets and other devices after autumn on Saturday evening. Although Tslelykh suffered from internal bleeding and head trauma, he finally turned the hiker into a coin phone over at least a dozen hours, said Okanogan County, Dave Yarnell,.

The climbers killed were Vishnu Irigireddy, 48, Tim Nguyen, 63, Oleksander Martynebenko, 36, Coroner by Okanogan County, Dave Rodriguez,. Iigireddy and Nguyen came from Renton and Martynebenko came from Bellevue, said officials.

Tselykh was listed in the HarborView Medical Center in Seattle in a satisfactory state, reported the CBS subsidiary Kiro TV on Tuesday. The authorities have not yet been able to interview the HIM, said Rodriguez, as much as the case and his journey is not yet known.

It is extremely rare that the cases of three deaths are extremely rare, said Cristina Woodworth, who leads the sheriff's search and rescue team. Seven years ago, two climbers were killed in a fall on El Capitan in the Yosemite National Park in California.

The group of four scaled the early winter spires, jagged peaks that were shared by a column that is popular with climbers in the North Cascade Range, about 160 miles northeast of Seattle.

The group of four met with a catastrophe that night when the anchor was used to her ropes as they descended, said Rodriguez. The anchor you used, a metal tip called Piton, seemed to have been placed there by previous climbers, he said.

They fell into a sloping gulch for about 200 feet and then fell another 200 feet before they came to rest, said Garnell. The authorities believe that the group had risen, but turned around when they saw how a storm approached.

A three-member search and rescue team reached the place of autumn Sunday, said Woodworth. The team used coordinates from a device that had worn the climbers that had been shared by a friend of the men.

As soon as you found the place, they called a helicopter to remove the bodies one after the other because of the rough terrain, said Woodworth.

The helicopter's flight through 16 miles of robust, mountainous terrain lasted longer than ordinary, one hour-way weather, Kiro TV reported. The video of Kiro's air supply showed that the helicopter navigated stormy winds and fog when things went to the climbers.

On Monday, the responders poured over the restored devices to decipher what caused the fall, said Woodworth. They found a piton – basically a small metal tip, which is driven in rock tears or ice cream and used as anchor by climbers – that was still cut into the climbing cords.

“There is no other reason why it is addicted to the rope if it is not pulled out of the rock,” said Rodriguez, the forensic doctor and found that pitons usually put in the rock quickly. Rodriguez added that when abseiling all four men would not hang on the one piton at the same time, but alternately moved down the mountain.

Pitons are often left in walls. You can be there for years or even decades and become less safe over time.

“It looked old and weathered, and the rest of her equipment looked new, so we assume that it was an old piton,” said Woodworth.

Fels climbers secure anchors such as pitons or other climbing devices by ropes. The ropes should arrest their falls if they should slip, and usually use climbers backup anchors, said Joshua Cole, a leader and co-owner of North Cascades Mountain Guides, who has been climbing in the area for about 20 years.

In general, it would be unusual to split a single piton, said Cole and added that it is still unknown what exactly happened on the wall that night.

“At some point, if possible, we would like to receive more information from the survivor party,” said Woodworth.

The beers are a popular climbing place. The route that the climbers took, said Cole, was of moderate difficulties and requires a move between ice, snow and rocks.

But the conditions, for example the amount of ice versus rocks, can change quickly with the weather, he even said week to week or day and day and change the risks of the route.

Woodworth said Kiro-TV that it is important that climbers “do not take their equipment for granted and simply always remain aware of their surroundings”.