On September 3, Kyra Harames (female, 24) was climbing with a group of friends at The Kitchen in Rock Canyon. After setting up a top-rope, she fell to the ground while attempting to rappel from the two-bolt anchor. Harames reported to ANAC, “I re...
Utah County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue was dispatched at 11:09 a.m. on December 26 to aid an ice climber who had fallen from the first pitch of Finger of Fate (3 pitches, WI4+) in Provo Canyon. The climber, Tim Thompson (29), was nearing the end...
On Wednesday, June 1, a party of two started climbing the Thumb formation at approximately 9 a.m. Upon reaching the summit after dark, they spent hours searching for the descent route via Plumb Line Gully. At approximately 2 a.m. on June 2 they ca...
On August 5, Jessie Liddiard, a 25-year-old climber from South Jordan, Utah, was struck in the head by a volleyball-sized rock while approaching a climb in the Hellgate area with her boyfriend. The pair were hiking near the cliff around 11:30 a.m....
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team (SLCOSAR) was called out at approximately 7:50 p.m. on May 23 for a fallen climber at the Beachball Crag in Big Cottonwood Canyon. The climber, a male in his 20s, had reportedly been climbing w...
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue (SLCOSAR) was called out at 5 p.m. on October 22 for three 19-year-old male climbers who were stranded about 100 feet from the summit on the West Slabs of 9,030-foot Mt. Olympus (10 pitches, 5.5). T...
On June 18, at 6:54 p.m., the Deschutes County dispatch center received a 911 call from a person on the northern slope of South Sister (10,358’). The subject was an experienced outdoorsperson (middle- aged male) who was doing wildlife surveys for ...
I, Sam Bedell (35), and my partner, Kyle Tarry, were attempting an unclimbed buttress in a remote range with complicated access. The temperature was warm, but the objective was in the shade, and we decided to attempt the line knowing we would have...
On October 15, Molly Workmeister (20) fell while leading Anonymity (5.9). A set of unfortunate circumstances, including loose rock, fatigue, and poor rope position, led to a serious and life-threatening accident. Workmeister wrote to ANAC, “It wa...
On September 17, Oregon Mountain Rescue Council teams gathered at Smith Rock for the first annual joint training since the pandemic. One hour into the two-day training, a critical search and rescue mission materialized: Members of the hosting Desc...
Two climbers, Person 1 (36) and Person 2 (30), were descending the upper Eliot Glacier from the summit of Mt. Hood in order to approach steeper ice climbs in the Eliot cirque. Both members of the party had climbed Hood many times and had previousl...
On Sunday, March 6, Pradnya Mohite (34) was attempting to summit Mt. Hood with climbing partner Lei Wang (50). Both climbers fell around 200 feet near the top of the Leuthold Couloir. Ms. Wang sustained critical injuries, and Ms. Mohite was declar...
On August 20, Angela Heinz (24) was at the base of a cliff in Spearfish Canyon when a rock dislodged from above, hitting her in the head. The impact caused a brain hemorrhage. She passed away after being airlifted to the hospital in Rapid City. A...
The east face of Golgotha (8,490’), showing (1) the peak’s first ascent route, finishing up the southeast face (Helander-Trocki, 2012), (2) The Shaft of the Abyss (Helander-Marin, 2022), and (3) the general line of the Svoljšak-Zupin route (2019...
On March 5, Danny McCracken (61) and Pierre Dery (65) selected Scrambled Eggs (2 pitches, 5.5) as an easy and familiar warm-up climb. While leading, Danny placed gear every 15 to 20 feet. He was approximately 70 feet up when he got to a hands-off ...
“I feel very lucky to be alive and not paralyzed.” On December 14, Adam Herzog (43) suffered severe head trauma, 15 fractures, spinal injury, and other trauma after failing to clip into an auto-belay in a climbing gym. Upon finishing the climb, he...
In the late afternoon of July 8, a male climber (42) free soloing Good Heavens (5 pitches, 5.5) called 911 to report that he was on a ledge near the top of the route and did not feel he could complete the climb after becoming weak from dehydration...
At approximately 6 p.m. on December 21, Burke County Emergency Dispatch received a cell phone call from a male climber (MC) on Table Rock Mountain. The caller stated that he was at the top of My Route (2 pitches, 5.6), located at the north end of ...
At approximately 10:45 p.m. on June 23, Burke County 911 received a call from a climber stating that there were three uninjured male climbers stranded on a ledge on the east face of Table Rock. The trio had climbed several pitches up Jim Dandy (3 ...
On Tuesday, June 26, my partner, Graham P., and I got an early start on The Odyssey (5 pitches, 5.11-). I started the first pitch and eventually pulled on a piece of gear through the lower crux. I passed a feature called the Sharks Fin, which is t...