Jess Roskelley

Jess Roskelley
Jess Roskelley near the summit of the Citadel during the first ascent of the Hypa Zypa Couloir, Alaska Range
Personal information
Birth nameJess Fenton Roskelley
Born(1982-07-13)July 13, 1982
Spokane, Washington, U.S.
DiedApril 16, 2019(2019-04-16) (aged 36)
Howse Peak, Alberta, Canada
EducationUniversity of Montana
Occupation(s)Welder, mountaineer
Climbing career
Type of climberSport climbing, bouldering, mountaineering
Highest grade
Known forYoungest American to reach the summit of Everest (2003) after Jordan Romero

Jess Fenton Roskelley (July 13, 1982 – April 16, 2019) was an American mountaineer. On May 21, 2003, at age twenty, he became the youngest American to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He died in an avalanche while climbing on Howse Peak in the Canadian Rockies.[1]

Early life

Roskelley was born on July 13, 1982, and raised in Spokane, Washington, where he attended Mt. Spokane High School.[2] He was the son of mountaineer John Roskelley and Joyce Roskelley, a teacher. He later moved to Montana to attend the University of Montana.[3]

Career

Roskelley began his career in mountain climbing as a guide on Mount Rainier. He passed the Rainier Mountain Guides exam at the age of eighteen,[4][better source needed] and by the age of twenty (in 2003) he had reached the summit 35 times as a guide.[5]

In March 2003, Roskelley and his father, mountaineer John Roskelley, traveled to Mount Everest as members of an expedition named "Generations on Everest". The expedition marked Jess's first attempt at the Everest summit, while it was his father's fourth attempt, having failed on three attempts earlier in his career.[6] Father and son successfully reached the summit on May 21, 2003, at which time Jess Roskelley, at the age of 20, became the youngest American to have reached the summit of Everest.[6] In 2010, this record was surpassed by Jordan Romero, who summited Everest at the age of 13.[7]

Roskelley later while living in Spokane divided his time in Alaska between climbing and working as a tank welder.[8] In October 2012, he and John Frieh climbed a new route on Mount Wake in the Alaska Range. They called the route The Cook Inlet.[9] In April 2013, Roskelley, Ben Erdmann and Kristoffer Szilas forged a new route on the Citadel, a peak in the Kichatna Mountains of Alaska. The route, which is next to Supa Dupa Couloir, was named Hypa Zypa Couloir.[10]

Personal life and death

Roskelley was married on July 25, 2015, to Allison Spencer.[11] Jess Roskelley has two sisters, Jordan and Dawn Roskelley. Roskelley was a sponsored athlete for Adidas Outdoor prior to joining The North Face Athlete Team in 2018.[12]

Roskelley died on descent after reaching the summit of Howse Peak in Banff National Park of the Canadian Rockies on 16 April 2019, with Austrian climbers David Lama and Hansjörg Auer. The group completed a difficult variation of a route on the east face of Howse Peak known as M-16 in under 7 hours. The Auer-Lama-Roskelley variation took a line to the left of M-16, after the first difficult waterfall pitch on that route. Their bodies were found on 21 April 2019.[12][13]

Photographic and GPS evidence recovered from the accident site and from Jess Roskelley's iPhone indicate they left their camp at the base of the east face at approximately 05:30 AM, climbed the first difficult ice pitch on M-16 by 07:19 AM, and then traversed left on new terrain into a left-leaning ramp. After a pitch and a half up the ramp, they traversed left again and climbed an exceptionally difficult unclimbed waterfall, which brought them to a long, steep snow gully. They climbed the gully and then traversed over a snow rib farther left into a large snow basin that is drained by the icefall route, "Life by the Drop". They climbed up the snow basin to the south ridge, which they ascended to the summit. Their summit photos were taken at 12:41 PM and 12:44 PM. The last photo on Auer's camera places them rappelling into the top of the snow basin at 13:27 PM.[13] Between 13:27 PM and 13:58 PM, Roskelley, Auer, and Lama were caught in an avalanche and carried to their death, as they descended the basin un-roped and before they reached their ascent traverse. Reaching the traverse would have placed them out of the basin and taken them to safety. A photograph taken from the highway by Canmore climber Quentin Roberts shows a large avalanche swept the route above "Life by the Drop" at 13:58 PM. The men's bodies were recovered from an avalanche cone below that route. The shallow layer of snow covering their bodies indicates the avalanche was either a localized break in the snow gully of the basin they were descending or created by a cornice falling into their descent gully as the cause of the accident.[14]

Professional mixed-martial artist Michael Chiesa dedicated his win at UFC 239 to Roskelley's memory.[15]

References

  1. ^ Agence, Presse-France (April 22, 2019). "Canada avalanche: bodies of three renowned mountaineers found". The Guardian. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  2. ^ "Jess Fenton ROSKELLEY Obituary (1982 - 2019) Spokesman-Review". Legacy.com.
  3. ^ "Profiles: Jess Roskelley". The University of Montana President's Report. University of Montana. 2003. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  4. ^ "Jess Roskelley". JessRoskelley.com. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  5. ^ Landers, Rich (June 8, 2003). "Peak of desire". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  6. ^ a b Leaming, Sara (May 21, 2003). "Roskelleys reach top of Everest". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  7. ^ Sharma, Gopal (May 22, 2010). "California teen becomes youngest to climb Everest". Reuters. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  8. ^ Cameron, Gwen (October 29, 2012). "Frieh Finds Two Late-Season Ascents In AK". Alpinist. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  9. ^ MacDonald, Dougald (November 5, 2012). "Rare Autumn New Route in Ruth Gorge". Climbing. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  10. ^ MacDonald, Dougald. "Amazing New Route in Alaska's Kichatna Range". Climbing. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  11. ^ Peter Beaumont; Joanna Walters (April 19, 2019). "Three mountaineers killed in avalanche in Canada". The Guardian. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  12. ^ "A Statement from Roskelley's Family". Climbing. April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  13. ^ Criscione, Wilson (August 1, 2019). "Climber Jess Roskelley reached his 'pinnacle of achievement' before his death. Now his family is left searching for answers". Inlander.com.
  14. ^ Photographs taken by Auer, Lama, and Roskelley, and physical evidence from the accident scene
  15. ^ "Spokane Valley's Michael Chiesa dedicates UFC 239 victory to Jess Roskelley | the Spokesman-Review".

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