June 3, 2003 - Hiking Fatality at East Twin Peak
Tracy Shelden, 33, of Wasilla died while scouting a route for son and friends after bad weather moved in. "Right before summiting, it got pretty steep, so Tracy went up to see if it did run into a rock face or not. He went over the summit ridge just east of the true summit." At some point he lost his footing and had come to rest below a 300-foot cliff about 800 feet from the summit ridge.
A 21-year-old Michigan hiker died in a fall at nearly the same spot in July 1998. Philip Fedewa plunged 500 feet to his death that year while attempting to free-climb the same face. According to Sgt. Mark Ridling "The body was located within a few hundred feet" of the previous fatality. Frontiersman Article