On September 6, between 5:30 and 5:45 p.m., Edward Tom (40) fell 80–100 feet to his death while scrambling within the camping area known as the Petzoldt Caves Camping Zone. Tom had a two-night camping permit for Petzoldt Caves, but when he arrived...
On August 27, at 9:15 a.m., a large rockslide occurred in the South Fork of Garnet Canyon. A single climber was buried and seriously injured when his party of three was caught in the outwash of a gully near the north side of Nez Perce Peak.The ini...
At 3:45 p.m. on July 12, I (Ron Johnson) was notified of a request to assist an injured person in Hanging Canyon. The climber (first name “Frank”) stated that his partner, Loren Hall (33), was at their camp with an injured leg. Frank was descendin...
On June 20 at 2:26 p.m., Teton Interagency Dispatch Center transferred an emergency cell phone call from Jeff Judkins (38) to Rescue Coordinator G. Montopoli. Judkins was climbing on the Crescent Arête (Grade III, 5.7) of Mt. Owen with climbing pa...
On June 17, after climbing the Grand Teton and descending in the shade on hard, frozen snow with crampons, we came across an area that had been in the sun for less than an hour. We were 10 meters above a large ledge. We moved over to follow the fo...
On April 21 a climber (mid-20s) got his knee stuck in the crack of a 40-foot climb called Easy Jam (5.4) on the Nautilus formation. Neil Mathison, on duty as Albany County Sheriff’s deputy, and Rick Colling, of the Wyoming Highway Patrol, were on ...
On Monday, September 23, National Park Service rangers responded to a climbing accident at Star Trek Wall. A male climber (age unknown) had rappelled off the end of his rope and fell about 35 feet. He sustained lower limb and back injuries in the ...
On September 14 a female climber (30) made her first trip to New River Gorge. She fell while leading Totally-Clipse (5.8) on Endless Wall. After placing protection she attempted a move, lost her hold, and fell. During the fall she remembered catch...
On August 26 my partner Sean (27) and I (28) were climbing Transporter Crack (5.6). Sean set up a Black Diamond ATC-Guide device in guide mode to belay me from above. When I was ready to lower, instead of taking me off belay and switching to a mor...
On April 8, Stephen Robinson (22) was climbing off-route near Orangeaid (5.10b), close to the last pitch of Castor, when he fell after placing a fifth piece of gear. The fall caused his top three placements (a nut, a 0.75 cam, and an offset nut) t...
The body of Tyler Barton (31) from Seattle was recovered in North Cascades National Park on Sunday, September 15, by park rangers, supported by a contracted helicopter from HiLine Helicopters of Darrington. Barton and his partner had summited Forb...
On July 28 a party of four from the Seattle area attempted the northeast ridge of Black Peak (8,970 feet). The climbers split into two rope teams, but quickly found that the first rope team was ascending at a faster pace. The first rope party summ...
On July 6 two experienced climbers summited Mt. Goode (9,200 feet) via the northeast buttress. They started their descent via the southwest couloir, a standard descent route. At 8,400 feet, one climber fell when the rappel anchor failed. He suffer...
On September 1 at 4 a.m., the park received an emergency cell phone call from a team of climbers on the north side of the mountain. They reported that another climbing team, consisting of Canadian climbers Andrei M. Pipas (leader, 31), John Spence...
A group of three climbers was ascending Mt. Rainier along with our group on August 31. At midnight we left Camp Schurman to ascend the Emmons Glacier. A third of the way up, our rope teams split. We assumed the second party had turned around, as t...
On August 25 a private party of five climbers led by Marcos Franco (23) attempted to summit Mt. Rainier via the Emmons/Winthrop route. While descending from the summit, they experienced high winds and low visibility and decided to shelter in place...
On August 17 at 5:30 a.m., an RMI guide (Dave Hahn) called Enumclaw dispatch and reported that he was guiding a 19-year-old client who had gone into seizures at the top of Disappointment Cleaver. The patient was short-hauled and then transferred t...
On July 21 at 1:30 p.m., mountain guide Chris Watson reported an injured climber via 911. Watson, who was with another guide, reported that Rody Senner (31) had jumped over a crevasse at 11,300 feet on the Emmons/Winthrop route. She sustained a po...
On July 7 a nine-person ski-mountaineering party from Canada summited Rainier via the Emmons/Winthrop Glaciers route. On the descent, one member of the team (47) fell while skiing and sustained multiple traumatic injuries. He landed in what’s know...
On June 23, climber Patrick Moore (52) dialed 911 from his satellite phone around 5 p.m. Patrick and his partner, Peter Roach (mid-40s), had climbed Liberty Ridge in deteriorating weather. The ascent took them longer than planned, and incoming wea...