The New Era
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has suspended the search for a missing climber on Mount Jefferson, according to a news release issued Thursday afternoon.
Steven Van Pelt, 33, of Salem, has been missing since after 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 23, when he fell during his descent down the 10,495-foot mountain in the Willamette National Forest. Six mountain rescue teams were dispatched in the effort over extreme mountainous terrain with glacier drifts, falling…