Renowned alpinist Jess Roskelley is feared dead in a Canadian avalanche
Climbers Jess Roskelley, David Lama, Hansjorg Auer feared dead in Canadian avalanche
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Jess Roskelley is pictured here in the Bull River, British Columbia, on Dec. 23, 2017. The Spokane alpinist is feared dead in a Canadian avalanche.
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Jess Roskelley climbs a mixed pitch on Changi Tower 2 in Pakistan on Aug. 13, 2018.
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2018-Jess Roskelley (left) and Scott Coldiron pose for a photo after successfully climbing, for the first time, a 2,600-foot route in the Cabinet Mountains. Below: A Peak in the Cabinet Mountains as seen from Granite Lake.
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Jess Roskelley, left, sits around a campfire on the banks of the Coeur d’Alene River.
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2018-Spokane alpinist Jess Roskelley works as a welder to pay for his globe-trotting climbing expeditions. Roskelley worked in Telluride, Colorado, on a high-altitude welding project.
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2017-Jess Roskelley of Spokane, left, and Clint Helander of Anchorage celebrate on the stormy summit of Mount Huntington after a five-day first ascent of the complete south ridge.
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Jess and Allison Roskelley.
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Spokane photographer Rika Ream traveled to Palouse Falls State Park in 2016 to marvel at the ice around the 185-foot waterfall. The scene was spectacular. Daring ice climbers dropped her jaw even farther. She captured this photo of Jess Roskelley of Spokane leading a climb in the fragile ice in the mist of the main waterfall with Scott Coldiron, who's belaying from below. "We were both wearing (kayaker's) dry suits because of the spray," Roskelley said.
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Days before the April 2015 earthquakes rattled Nepal, Jess Roskelley of Spokane and a team of climbers were flown to base camp for their attempt to climb Annapurna, the world's 10th highest peak. They postponed their climb and hiked out after the earthquakes subsided to offer their services in the relief effort.
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2015-Allison (Spencer) Roskelley releases a brown trout during a fly fishing float on the Yellowstone River while honeymooning with her husband, Jess Roskelley of Spokane.
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2012-John Frieh, left, and Jess Roskelley made a "smash and grab" climb to capture perfect conditions for scaling Alaska's Mount Wake.
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2012-Jess Roskelley of Spokane endures bitter cold while climbing Wake Mountain in Alaska.
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John Frieh, left, and Jess Roskelley made camp off a glacier below Mount Dickey as they staged for their 2012 smash and grab climb of Mount Wake in Alaska.
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Jess Roskelley of Spokane settles into a snow cave to bivvy for a minus 10 degree F night without a sleeping bag high on a steep waterfall ice climbing route called Slipstream near the top of Snow Dome in the Columbia Icefields of Alberta on April 26, 2009. Photo courtesy of John Roskelley
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Jess Roskelley of Spokane ascends an ice route called Slipstream to the top of Snow Dome in the Columbia Icefields of Alberta on April 26, 2009. Photo courtesy of John Roskelley
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Jess Roskelley of Spokane ascends an ice route called Slipstream to the top of Snow Dome in the Columbia Icefields of Alberta on April 26, 2009. Photo courtesy of John Roskelley
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2005-Spokane climbers John Roskelley, 56, and his son, Jess, 23, pose for a photo before their trip to Tibet to attempt an unclimbed route up 23,422-foot Gauri Shankar. Jess Roskelley became the youngest American to climb Mount Everest in a father-son expedition in 2003.
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Jess Roskelley with Sherpa climbing partner at Everest base camp in spring of 2003.
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Jess and John Roskelly arrive in Spokane after their conquest of Mt. Everest in 2003.
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Father-and-son mountaineers John, right, and Jess Roskelley, of Spokane, Wash. are shown on the summit of Mt. Everest, in Nepal, Wednesday, May 21, 2003, in this photo provided by the expedition. Thursday, May 29, 2003, will be the 50th anniversary of the day Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain.
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Jess Roskelley, of Spokane, Wash. is shown with the summit of Mt. Everest in the background Wednesday, May 21, 2003 in this photo provided by the expedition on the day Jess reached the summit with his father, John. Thursday, May 29, 2003, will be the 50th anniversary of the day Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain.
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John Roskelley (right) and his son Jess, shown here in a photo taken as they were traveling toward their base camp on Mount Everest in 2003. The father-son climbing team from Spokane advanced slowing even on the driving portion of their trip to adjust to the higher elevations. They are pictured here at a hotel in Nyalam, the second town the passed through in Tibet, at 12,300 feet.
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John Roskelley and his son Jess in Bhutan in 1997. Photo courtesy John Roskelley.
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Dec. 14, 1994. Jess Roskelley, 12, sits in tree stand from which he bagged his first buck.
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