Missing B.C. climber’s body recovered from Mount Baker [Video]

The body of a British Columbia mountain climber has been located and recovered after the 39-year-old man was reported missing during a solo climb on Washington state’s Mount Baker earlier this week.

Whatcom County’s interim medical examiner Aldo Fusaro confirmed Friday that Sebastian Urban of Squamish died of multiple blunt force injuries caused by an accidental fall on the mountain.

The local sheriff’s office launched a search-and-rescue mission to find the climber shortly after sunrise on Sept. 29, focusing their efforts on Mount Baker’s Coleman-Deming route, where Urban had embarked on a solitary climb two days prior.

When Urban failed to check in with family on the evening of Sept. 28, sheriff’s deputies prepared a search plan with assistance from search volunteers and aircraft from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Navy’s Whidbey Island station.

Heavy cloud cover had prevented helicopters from approaching the region until conditions cleared …