The surviving climber extricated himself from a tangle of equipment after the fall, hiked to his car in the dark and then drove to a pay phone to call for help.

A rock climber who fell hundreds of feet descending a steep gully in Washington’s North Cascades mountains survived the fall that killed his three companions, hiked to his car in the dark and then drove to a pay phone to call for help,

Authorities have identified the three climbers who were killed after falling 400 feet from Washington state’s North Cascade mountains last weekend as new details have emerged about how a fourth climber sought help after miraculously surviving the plunge.

Four men who were climbing in Washington’s North Cascades mountains fell roughly 400 feet, a drop that killed three of them