Nicknamed the 'Murder Wall' for its avalanches, rockfalls and ferocious storms, the mountain had claimed the lives of two climbers just a year earlier.
According to the New York Police Department, officers responded to reports of a fall inside the arena and found the man unconscious and unresponsive at 9.51pm.
A mother, father and nine-year-old boy plunged to their deaths from a luxury high-rise in a suspected murder-suicide after their terminally ill son was discharged from hospital and sent home to die.