On August 22, a Canadian climber named Chun Hui Zhang (52) died after falling while descending the Disappointment Cleaver route on Mt. Rainier. He was climbing the mountain with several friends. His body was recovered the day after the accident wa...
On May 11, two climbers, who were not identified, made a 911 call saying that deteriorating weather conditions had forced them to halt their ascent of the Kautz Glacier route (WI2/3) on Mt. Rainier (14,410’). The Kautz route is the third most popu...
On June 11, I (male, 28) was leading the first pitch of Hello Kitty (3 pitches, 5.10b) at Middle Eight Mile Buttress, outside of Leavenworth, at about 4 p.m. on a sunny day. The pitch is mostly bolted with a couple of options for gear placements, ...
On July 4, Bryan Caldwell (44) and a partner were climbing R&D (4 pitches, 5.6) on the Icicle Buttress. Around 1:15 p.m., bad weather moved in and the team decided to retreat via rappel. After Caldwell’s partner reached the base, she heard Cal...
On July 29, my partner (male, 33) and I (male, 33) set out around 2 a.m. for an attempt at Mt. Stuart’s Direct North Ridge (IV 5.9). The route was well within our technical expertise and similar to other alpine objectives we had completed in the p...
Around 11 a.m. on November 7, a female climber (38) started up the first pitch of The Regular Route (3 pitches, 5.4) on Looking Glass Rock. She was belayed from above by her husband, Climber 2 (37), who had led the pitch. On the second move off th...
On April 12, Dalton Snow (29) was leading an unnamed single-pitch route (5.11) in order to rig a highline when he dislodged a loose rock and fell 40 or 50 feet onto a low-angle slab near the base of the route. The first half of the route had poor...
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...