According to a fundraising page created by a friend, the teen had surgery on Tuesday and was now recovering in a hospital in Portland
According to a news report on Portland-based KATU news station, 16-year-old Gurbaz Singh was climbing the mountain on Monday morning with friends when ice gave way in the steep and narrow Pearly Gates section of the climb to the peak.
About 30 search and rescue workers were deployed and arrived at about 1:30 p.m. It took three hours to get him down to the waiting ambulance. “He thought he was going to stop somewhere, and he was trying to arrest the fall with his axe, but it just didn’t happen because he was rolling so fast that he couldn’t do it,” Rishamdeep Singh told news crews.
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