On March 24, while at a rock gym, Bystander 1 and Bystander 2 were alerted by a belayer that he needed assistance. A climber was top-roping near the end of a route and the belayer’s Grigri was not fully closed. This left the outer plate open and t...
On February 18, my friend and I (Anonymous) hiked to the Dixon School Boulders for a session. We’d been climbing there for a number of years. After warming up in the Lower Patio Area, we went to the classic Galvatron (V3). Since we often climb tog...
Laurel Knob is one of the tallest crags in the eastern U.S. and home to some serious multipitch climbing. Formerly a clandestine climbing destination on private land, the 1,200-foot granite dome was purchased by the Carolina Climbers Coalition i...
The rugged Linville Gorge is a quality Southeastern climbing destination and also a designated wilderness area. The relative isolation of these crags needs consideration when planning a climb. Photo: Ken Thomas — Wikimedia On January 19, MC a...
On August 2, a climber fell while leading a route on Table Rock Mountain. She was unaware of it at the time, but she had broken her back. Despite the injury, she self-rescued shortly before a thunderstorm doused the crag. Photo: Anonymous climbe...
AH (37) and CE (48) met online and decided to go to the Fate Osteen Crag for some rock climbing. On November 29, they got to the base of Twist of Fate (2 pitches, 5.7) and decided that CE would lead the first pitch (5.7). AH joined CE at the belay...
On October 14, Mohonk SAR rangers responded to a climber who had fallen to the ground while being lowered from Outer Space (5.8) in the Near Trapps area. They found the climber (Climber 2, female) lying in the talus beneath the route. A trailing r...
In October, a climber was taking practice falls after attending a “Fall Therapy” clinic that was taught indoors by a certified guide. This led to a serious accident when a chunk of rock was dislodged, striking the climber after he stopped fallin...
The 2024 season at the Mohonk Preserve saw numerous climbing-related incidents that resulted in various musculoskeletal injuries. There were eight lead climbing incidents, four bouldering accidents, and one environmental incident that the Mohonk S...
The Trap Dike starts in a dike gully (pictured here) before exiting onto a slab leading to the summit of Mt. Colden. This popular route, part scramble and part technical climb, has been the scene of many rescues. Photo: NY State Dept. of Envirom...
On August 6, Eben (42) and Stewart (32) hiked down the Chimney Canyon Trail at 8:49 a.m. to get to the base of The Second Coming (4 pitches, 5.8) on Muralla Grande. Eben had nine years of climbing experience and was training and mentoring Stewart ...
New Hampshire’s Mt. Webster offers moderate multipitch ice routes with a distinctly alpine feel. In December 2024 a climber fell while leading a mixed chimney (seen here in fat conditions) on a route called Shoestring Gully. The ensuing overnigh...
On November 10, I, Eric Chaudhary, and a partner (male, 26) were climbing Marijuana (5 pitches, 11c) in the Black Orpheus Amphitheater. My partner was leading the second pitch (10b). It exits hard left off a hanging belay with one bolt for protect...
In August, a climber got a knee stuck high on a two-pitch route in Gallatin Canyon. Here, she gets help from a fellow climber. She was freed in a few hours and finished the route. Photo: Climber 1. On August 15, two teams of two climbers were...
McPartland Mountain (8,417 feet) is one of many striking summits in Glacier National Park. In August 2024, the highly consequential terrain pictured here claimed the life of a very experienced climber who had previously summited 128 peaks in the...
On July 11, RC (male, 69) and Joel were climbing at Crow Hill, a popular area with 100-foot-high cliffs. Both climbers were familiar with the area and quite experienced. They climbed pitch one of Outersite (5.7), then followed a bushy, left-trendi...
As two climbers were cleaning a boulder, one fell to the ground after his fixed rope was severed by the sawing motion of the weighted rope running across the coarse and acutely angled edge. Photo: Tom Neary On May 11, Tom Neary and his brothe...
The view from the new route up the southwest face of Parus West, with part of the north face of Sabakh in back, at the head of the Ashat Gorge. Photo: Olga Lukashenko. For a long time, I had been obsessed with climbing the north face of formi...
This very foreshortened view of the Gully Wall at Ross Rocks shows Seeking Forgiveness (5.10), marked in yellow. A crack finish above the two-bolt belay (blue X’s) has no fixed gear, while the lower part has four bolts (blue X’s). This discrepan...
On December 16, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office received a report that 42-year-old Keith Hayes had not returned home that evening after going climbing. Around 9 p.m., friends of Hayes’ found his body near the top of the Second Flatiron, after ...