Authorities say a skier died after being caught in an avalanche on North America’s tallest peak, Mount McKinley in Alaska.

Nicholas Vizzini and his climbing partner, a snowboarder, triggered the avalanche high on the 20,310-foot peak while descending a slope, officials said.

Nicholas Vizzini, 29, of Washington state and his climbing partner, a snowboarder, triggered the avalanche high on the peak ...

Mount McKinley in Alaska, the tallest mountain in North America, has been called Denali by Alaskan Native people for ...

FILE – A view of one of the faces of North America’s tallest peak, then-named Mount McKinley, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File ...