The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has suspended the search for a missing climber on Mount Jefferson, according to a news release issued Thursday, July 29.
Steven Van Pelt, 33, of Salem, had 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. An eyewitness describes losing sight of Van Pelt after he fell several hundred feet.
Marion County Sheriff’s Office received…