There were four technical climbing rescues in the mountains of upstate New York in 2017. In addition to the ice climbing accident described here, a 58-year-old man fell on an ice climb in Platte Clove in the Catskills and was injured but able to walk out with assistance; two climbers were stranded on Wallface, a remote cliff in the High Peaks, after dropping their rope; and a soloist was stranded about 70 feet up Shipton’s Arête (5.4) at Chapel Pond.