A young man fell to his death on Sunday while climbing Mount Yukla, above Eagle River.
Dasan Marshall, 24, of Portland, Oregon was a student at Alaska Pacific University. College spokeswoman Eeva Latosuo says his climb was not part of school.
“He was on a personal climbing trip with his climbing partner,” Latosuo said. “He was attempting the north face of Mt. Yukla when he slipped and fell 1,000 feet.”
Lagosuo says Marshall had been living in Alaska since 2012. His climbing resume included ascents of Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Baker. In Alaska, Dasan had completed the West Buttress of Denali and multiple routes around Kahiltna Base Camp and Pike Glacier, as well as many other technical peaks and routes in the Western Chugach.
Marshall had been attending his last semester at APU to complete his Bachelor’s degree in Outdoor Studies and working on his senior project that involved starting an alpine club for the student community at APU.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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