Climbers Took a 2,000-foot Fall off Canada's Highest Mountain and Lived to Tell the Story

Climbers Took a 2,000-foot Fall off Canada's Highest Mountain and Lived to Tell the Story

In June 1980, climbers and park wardens Tim Auger and Peter Perren took a 2,000-foot fall from the East Ridge of Mount Logan in Yukon and survived. Badly injured, Perren managed to clear snow from the face of Auger, who had been buried and was turning blue. Both men lived. Perren had often said that the fall he and Auger took was the defining experience of his time as a park warden, and one that continued to shape his life decades later. “I am s…