Four rock climbers fell several hundred feet while descending granite spires in Washington, leaving only one survivor who hiked out and told a 911 dispatcher that his companions were dead and he could “hardly breathe,” according to a recording obtained on May 15 by The Associated Press.
Anton Tselykh, 38, had plummeted an estimated 400 feet on the evening of May 10, suffering internal injuries and head trauma. By the morning of May 11, more than a dozen hours later, he was calling 911 from a payphone in a community some 40 miles away.
