Hi Taylor,
I've been quietly monitoring this board for activity and have private messaged some people involved here.
My family and I were becoming close friends with the hiker that lost his life. We were neighbors that would spend a couple days of the week together watching TV or gathering for dinner.
He was with a male and female friends that hiked him to the base on May 5th. He proceeded up alone because the other 2 knew that it was beyond their skillset, they proceeded back down and waited for him at the portal.
I believe he was wearing a brown camouflage winter jacket, obviously two blue ice axes in hand.
I wanted to remain quiet but decided recently that time will eventually pass to where anybody that saw him at the top or may have spoke with him up there will forget the details.
