The National Park Service called off the search Sunday for four climbers presumed dead in an avalanche on Mount McKinley. The climbers were part of a five-person Japanese team caught in a small slide early Thursday morning. after climbing 60 feet out of the crevasse and descending to base camp. The search effort for the other four was halted after a park ranger found their climbing rope at the bottom of a crevasse more than 100 feet deep. The deaths are on that section of the mountain, known as Motorcycle Hill.
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