One climber was killed and another seriously injured while attempting to climb the off-limits volcano Popocatépetl, the fifth-highest summit in North America. The active volcano erupted on June 22, and according to official reports, a group of fo...
This occurred on June 1 on Hals-und Beinbruch (7 pitches, 5.8). On the fourth pitch, just after several meters of more engaging vertical climbing, a large rock measuring approximately one meter by one meter by 10 centimeters dislodged and pulled o...
This incident occurred on April 24, around 2 p.m., as a female climber, age 27, was leading a dihedral on Post Scriptum (5.11d) in the Marshmallows Sector. The footholds were slippery, and as she held a gaston (a thumb-down grip on side-pull hold)...
On August 12, a party of two climbers left the Hind Hut to ascend the north ridge of Mt. Assiniboine (AD 5.5). By late morning, they had reached one of the steeper upper steps at about 3,500 meters (11,482’). The pair had soloed everything up to t...
Married couple Daniel Heritage (28) and Emma Heritage were midway up a popular multi-pitch route called Mother’s Day Buttress (8 pitches, 5.6) on Cascade Mountain. Leading the fifth pitch, Daniel chose a more difficult (5.8) variation up a steep c...
On October 5, two climbers were on the eighth and final pitch of Tonka (5.10d) on Tunnel Mountain when the leader fell sideways, hitting a small ledge. The climber sustained an injury to their lower leg and ankle and was lowered back to the belay,...
On July 15, two climbers were nearing the top of Mt. Temple’s north face via the Greenwood-Locke Route (20 pitches, 5.10+) on their second day of climbing. The route was in relatively dry summer condition, and the weather was clear and calm. At 4...
On March 22, a party of two was climbing Polar Circus (9 pitches, WI5), located above the Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies. At approximately 4 p.m., while descending snow slopes between ice pitches, the party was struck by a Size 2 avalan...
Person 1 (female belayer, 29) and Person 2 (male leader, 29) were climbing on Bedson Ridge near the northeast boundary of Jasper National Park. This area has multi-pitch climbs on highly compact limestone. The pair were friends and had been climbi...
On October 15, Nathan Roberts (35) died as a result of a fall while free soloing Mrs. Negative (5.12a) at Cheakamus Canyon, a sport crag north of Squamish. He was alone at the time and attempted the route while waiting to meet up with a climbing p...
On the morning of July 29, Matteo Agnoloni (30) and I, Ethan Berman (31), set off early from a bivy high on the ridgeline connecting Serra 3 and 4 in the Waddington Range. We were attempting a full traverse of the range and were in the midst of a ...
"Look, Jérôme," Mathieu Maynadier said, pointing at a map as he and Jérôme Sullivan drank coffee at Mathieu’s home back in 2021. “Pumari Chhish East is like Latok, but without any previous ascents.” At the time, Mathieu and Tom Livingstone had a...
I became interested in the north face of Mt. Breitenbach (12,140’) in the early 2000s as an alpine climbing objective. There had been several attempts over the years, but only one route, the Grand Chockstone Couloir (III 5.8 A2, Boyles-Olson-Weber...
July 6 was the second day of climbing in the Cirque of the Towers for Alex Satonik (35) and Peter Haley (29). After climbing Pingora the previous day, they decided to try the equally classic East Ridge of Wolfs Head (10 pitches, 5.6). Satonik wrot...
On June 30 at approximately 2:25 p.m., while on patrol, a National Park Service (NPS) climbing ranger encountered two climbers yelling for help near the top of Spalding Falls. The climbing ranger reported that a 62-year-old male had lost control w...
On September 21 at 8:30 p.m., climbing rangers received a call from a climber reporting that his party of three were soaking wet and stuck on the south face of Teewinot (12,325’). The reporting party relayed that they had a single headlamp and no ...
On August 16 at 10:52 a.m., National Park Service (NPS) climbing rangers received a call from a climber on the Cathedral Traverse, between Teewinot and Mt. Owen. His climbing partner had fallen from the col atop the Koven Couloir. The reporting pa...
At 4 p.m. on July 23, NPS climbing rangers received a call from a climber near the summit of Symmetry Spire. She reported that her climbing partner had taken an estimated 60-foot tumbling leader fall and that he had briefly lost consciousness and ...
On August 16 at 12:36 p.m., rangers received a cell phone call from a climber who reported that his two partners needed assistance at 9,600 feet on Mt. Moran (12,610’). The reporting party (RP) was descending the CMC Route and was in communication...
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...