Alaskan Avalanche Kills Two Toronto Jewish Climbers
Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.Pic: Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.Two Jewish men from Toronto were killed in an avalanche while climbing in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve on the weekend.
Andrew Herzenberg, 39, and Avner Magen, 42, were hit by the avalanche Saturday while descending a steep ice-and-snow gully in Ruth Gorge, officials said Monday.
Other climbers who had been skiing close to the site saw the avalanche and approached enough to see what happened. They then called park rangers with a satellite phone.
Rangers confirmed the men’s deaths Saturday night, and their bodies were recovered Sunday morning.
Both men were from Toronto, though Magen’s nationality was identified as Israeli.
Herzenberg was a doctor at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, as well as an assistant professor with the University of Toronto's pathology department. He was also on the board of directors of the Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School, where his two daughters attended.
Magen was an avid climber, and an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, where he joined the faculty in 2004.
Denali National Park and Preserve is well known among climbers for Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America.
The Ruth Gorge, which has a glacier of the same name, is just southeast of Mount McKinley. It is at a lower elevation, but is more technically challenging.
According to park officials, the avalanche occurred on the southeast side of the gorge, between Werewolf Tower and London Tower.
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