March 14 (UPI) -- Two missing alpinists in Alaska were presumed dead Wednesday after Alaska State Troopers called off a week-long search.
British Columbia climber Marc-André Leclerc, 25, and Juneau-based climber Ryan Johnson, 34, went missing March 7 while climbing Alaska's Mendenhall Towers. Alaska State Troopers, the U.S. Coast Guard and Juneau Mountain Rescue coordinated a search party to find the two men over the past week. And on Tuesday, they found climbing equipment belonging to them deep crevasses.