Climber rescued from Mount Rainier has died

[flamingyouth]

TACOMA, Wash. -- An injured climber plucked by rescue helicopter from high on the north slope of Mount Rainier has died, a Pierce County medical examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Monday night.

"We have been advised he has passed away," said Mary deTracy, a medical investigator with the medical examiner's office here.

She declined to identify the climber by name but Peter Cooley, 39, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, has been rescued several hours earlier from the 12,300 foot level of the 14,410-foot mountain southeast of here.
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