On July 25, at 10:50 a.m., the Jenny Lake rangers received a report of an injured climber on Open Book (5.9) in Garnet Canyon. The reporting party told the ranger that Climber 1 (27) had taken a leader fall and had an open fracture to the left leg...
On November 30, Trevor Stuart (33), an expert climber with 10 years of experience, was solo top-roping The Greatest Show on Earth (5.13a) in the New River Gorge. After a fall, he became detached from his rope. He hit the ground after an estimated ...
On August 9, Climber 1 (60), Climber 2 (55), and five friends (ages 30 to 40+) from the Wasatch and Potomac Mountain clubs were attempting the Disappointment Cleaver route on Rainier. At 10,080 feet (Camp Muir), two members elected not to attempt ...
On June 17, Brandon Frohbieter (34) was climbing unroped on an indoor wall about 12 feet off the floor. Although the route was equipped with an autobelay device, Frohbieter was not clipped to it. His plan was to check out the moves in order to dec...
On the afternoon of July 20, I (male, 29) was climbing at Index with P, who had several years of climbing experience. P could comfortably lead 5.11 sport routes, but had limited experience with trad climbing. I had four years of mountaineering exp...
On July 10, an unidentified climber (age unknown) released a rock while climbing. The rock fell and struck a child (age 6) on the head. The child was playing at the base of a route called Zoom (5.10d) and was not wearing a helmet. Snohomish County...
On June 1, a father and son team experienced rockfall while attempting a first ascent variation on Mt. Greer, a 1,500-foot-tall formation in Zion National Park. While leading the final pitch, Aaron Davis (42) dislodged a large block. The rock stru...
On the afternoon of October 3, I (Ryan McAvoy, age 24) fell about 50 feet from a route called Vinciny (5.10). The route is 60 feet tall. It was our second day in the Creek, and I was climbing with a mix of old and new friends. I agreed to lead Vi...
On February 6, Clarissa Fortier (29) and Ariel* (32) climbed the Kor-Ingalls Route (4 pitches, 5.9+) on Castleton Tower. Ariel was an Israeli living in the United States, and Fortier was an American with six years of climbing experience throughout...
On Sunday, October 10, Mason Boos (25) and two companions were climbing in the Gate Buttress area. At about 1:15 p.m., Boos was unroped and traversing 3rd-class terrain below Satan’s Corner (5.8) to reach the start of Half-A-Finger (5.9+). He pull...
James Roache (54) died after sliding 100 feet on snow before falling into a rocky moat on Mt. Olympus on May 22. He was preparing to climb the popular West Slabs (5.5). This long, moderate rock climb lies at relatively high elevation and often hol...
On November 2, three climbers were linking the lower north face with the upper north face of remote Notch Peak. They completed the lower face via Western Hardman (12 pitches, 5.10c). They then started up the upper face on Book of Saturday (12 pitc...
On January 9, a man approximately 21 to 25 years old fell on Fear of Falling (5.11b) and broke both ankles. According to three witnesses who posted on Mountain Project, the man and his partner—a female approximately 21 years old—appeared completel...
On November 28, two experienced climbers impacted each other when the lead climber fell off Darkness at Noon (5.13b). He pulled his belayer (42) into him, and the collision resulted in several neck and back compression fractures to the belayer. A...
On September 17, at approximately 7 p.m., a Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit (CMRU) member fell approximately 40 to 50 feet on high-angle rock while ascending a single rope. The accident took place during a training event at Steelhead Falls. The gro...
On the morning of April 12, a climber (49) was soloing the North Face Couloir of South Sister (10,358 feet) in very thin conditions. He became stranded after climbing into an area with overhanging rocks above, having passed through terrain he was ...
On Sunday, May 30, a climber (male, 63) fell 500 feet from the Old Chute route on Mt. Hood (11,239 feet). He was descending the route with his adult son. He fell from around the 10,500-foot level—the steepest section of the climb. Witnesses calle...
Early afternoon on November 14, K. Tumek (31) and his wife were climbing the route Comatose (100’, 5.8 trad) with K. leading. Somewhere on the climb he fell approximately 20 feet and swung into the rock face, injuring his hip and elbow. He was low...
Early in the afternoon on January 14, Forrest Lin (28) and Catherine Chee (28) began climbing The Nose (4 pitches, 5.8) on Looking Glass Rock. Both climbers reached the top of the 110-foot first pitch. Once the anchor and belay were established, L...
During the late afternoon on August 23, Miriam Cho (30) and her partner were climbing the route Chicken Bone (5.6), located in the Parking Lot climbing area of Pilot Mountain State Park. Miriam led the climb and reached the anchors, where she bega...