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Mount Hood is one of the most climbed peaks in the Pacific Northwest. It’s close to Portland, heavily photographed, and attempted by thousands every year. On paper, it’s a popular, well-known mountain with established routes and constant activity.

But over the last two decades, the numbers tell a different story.

More than a hundred confirmed fatalities. Dozens still missing. Search teams repeatedly encountering the same unsettling details — abandoned gear, sudden route deviations, bodies found in terrain that should have been impossible to reach. In some cases, climbers step off safe routes without explanation. In others, equipment is found carefully placed while the person is gone.

Weather and terrain account for many tragedies. But not all of them follow predictable patterns.

Why do experienced climbers leave established paths? Why do tracks end at stable snowfields? Why do certain areas of the mountain appear again and again in official reports?

Mount Hood is climbed every weekend.

Most people come down.

Some never do.

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