A climbing route is a path by which a climber reaches the top of a mountain, a rock face or an ice-covered obstacle. The details of a climbing route are recorded in a climbing guidebook and/or in an online climbing-route database. From Wikipedia
38-year-old Tom Gerbier, an experienced mountaineer and ultra runner, was on a stopover for his Air France flight in Los Angeles when he embarked on his ill-fated hike; his tragic death marks the second fatality this year at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.