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...
On October 23, a 27-year-old climber with three years of experience was leading the third and last pitch of Middle Earth (5.6). After completing the crux roof, the climber fell approximately 55 feet. They impacted the wall several times until thei...
On June 3, at approximately 5 p.m., a leader (male) and follower (female), both in their late 20s or early 30s, climbed the two-pitch Easy O (5.2 trad). They intended to descend via the two-bolt rappel anchor at the top of Son of Easy O (5.8). A s...
In 2022, there were 13 reported climbing-related accidents on the Mohonk Preserve. These included eight leader accidents, three bouldering accidents, and one lowering incident. Recorded injuries included three head/facial injuries, one shoulder in...
On March 16, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) dispatch center received a report that a family member had not returned from a climbing trip to the High Peaks of the Adirondacks. Forest rangers checked the trailhead ...
At 6:30 p.m. on October 16, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) rangers received a call from two climbers who were stranded on Moss Cliff in Wilmington Notch, within Adirondack State Park. Moss Cliff is a 400-plus-foo...
This incident occurred at approximately 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 8, at the Socorro Box Recreation Area during a rock-climbing program with a group of novices. It was the last day of a three-day trip sequence. Climber 1 (32) and Belayer (27) attempted...
On July 9, Jeff (male, 60) and his wife, Pam, were climbing Beginner’s Easy Variation (8 pitches, 5.3 R) on the slabs of Whitehorse Ledge. Another climbing party of Damon (male), his father Graham (77), and son Taylor (8) were climbing nearby on t...
On Saturday, June 25, WD (male, 28) and GT (male, 27) were climbing Moby Grape (7 pitches, 5.8 PG-13). They got off route near the top of the climb when attempting to bypass a slab section. After an unsuccessful attempt to self-rescue, the party c...
On June 7, a 19-year-old Columbia Falls man died following a climbing accident on Mt. Brown in Glacier National Park. Park officials received a call around 3:00 p.m. regarding a missing person. Two individuals planned to hike and climb Mt. Brown. ...
The east face of Dusty Star with the new route marked (red) and Jack Beard in the foreground. This picture was taken by Brian Kennedy the day before the pair’s fatal rappel accident. On July 24, two climbers were reported overdue to the Nati...
On October 28, Patrick Marx (18) fell while climbing Big Ass Flake (V2) on the secluded basalt outcroppings along Cliff Drive. He wrote ANAC, “I was 15 to 18 feet off the ground and I dropped and missed my crash pad. I had a spotter who prevented ...