Jess Fenton Roskelley was an American mountaineer.
10 Facts About Jess Roskelley
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Jess Roskelley died in an avalanche while climbing on Howse Peak in the Canadian Rockies.
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Jess Roskelley was the son of mountaineer John Roskelley and Joyce Roskelley, a teacher.
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Jess Roskelley later moved to Montana to attend the University of Montana.
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Jess Roskelley began his career in mountain climbing as a guide on Mount Rainier.
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Jess Roskelley passed the Rainier Mountain Guides exam at the age of eighteen, and by the age of twenty he had reached the summit 35 times as a guide.
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Jess Roskelley was married on July 25,2015, to Allison Spencer.
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Jess Roskelley was a sponsored athlete for Adidas Outdoor prior to joining The North Face Athlete Team in 2018.
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Jess Roskelley died on descent after reaching the summit of Howse Peak in Banff National Park of the Canadian Rockies on 16 April 2019, with Austrian climbers David Lama and Hansjorg Auer.
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The Auer-Lama-Jess Roskelley variation took a line to the left of M-16, after the first difficult waterfall pitch on that route.