The search for two missing climbers is now in its third full day after the body of Luke T. Gullberg, who at 26 had climbed the 11,240-foot Mt. Hood six times, was recovered at 9,000 feet on Saturday. Due to what has been called extreme avalanche danger, the search has been limited to helicopter surveillance since Sunday morning, and the only climbers who set out early Sunday morning returned by 6:15 a.m. due to the poor conditions.

Gullberg, of Des Moines, Wash., was found on Reid Glacier after what looks like an apparently big fall. Gullberg was thought to be leading his friends Katie Nolan, 29, of Southeast Portland and Anthony Vietti, 24, of Longview, Wash. On Sunday, searchers took out a Black Hawk helicopter, a Civil Air Patrol fixed-wing aircraft, and a Coast Guard C-130 plane, but didn’t find a single sign of Nolan or Vietti. Prayer vigils have cropped up in Portland and other cities, as well as online.

Mt. Hood has claimed the lives of at least 18 people, a number that includes Gullberg, in the past decade. This time of year tends to present not only risk of avalanche, but falling into crevasses as well. The search-and-rescue mission is complicated by the fact that there are conflicting reports of the route the climbers planned to take, so the search net has had to be cast wider than usual.