Climbing describes how he just survived 400 foot fall, in which 3 others were killed

A climber in Washington Rock survived a devastating fall that claimed the life of his three companions, the authorities reported. The 38 -year -old Anton Tslelykh told the shattering experience from his hospital bed in Seattle and confirmed the suspicion of the investigators about the cause of the tragedy.

The group shook the early winter sites in the North Cascade area, failed as a crucial anchor known as a piton.

A climber actively shook off the metal tip that was driven into the rock wall when it gave. The other three climbers, including Tslelykh, were tied to the same anchor and waited for their descent. The failure of the piton used all four estimated 400 feet.

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Tselykh was passed out for hours after the fall. After regaining awareness in the dark, he managed to get out and drive to a coin phone to demand help. This report, which is passed on by TSELYKH to the search and rescue coordinator of the Sheriff Sheriff by Snohomish County, Cristina Woodworth, confirms the initial evaluation of the accident by the investigators.

Tslelykh lost awareness of a few hours after the fall before woke up in a tangle of ropes and equipment in the dark. Woodsworth said he had internal bleeding and head trauma.

It took eight hours before Tslelykh relaxed, the rough terrain of rocks and snow worked down-with the help of a pimple-like ice tool to his car, drive into a nearby city and demand help, said Woodworth.

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The four climbers were friends, some of whom had previously climbed together and were quite experienced, Woodworth said and added that Tslelykh was “obviously very badly affected by it”.

The climbers killed were Vishnu Irigireddy, 48; Tim Nguyen, 63; And Oleksander Martynynko, 36, said the forensic doctor of Okanogan County.

Olga Martynenenko, Martyneken's wife, said on Tuesday in a Facebook post that her husband, whom she described as Alex, also left her son behind. She informed a link to a fundraising campaign to “help during the most devastating time of our lives”.

“I still can't believe that you are gone, my love,” she said.