Reported Mountaineering Accidents, Table II
1951-2007
2008
Total
Total
Geographical
Number of
Persons
Number of
Persons
Districts
Accidents
Deaths
Involved
Accidents
Deaths
Involved
CANADA*
Alberta
520
142
1033
British Columbia
317
119
641
Yukon Territory
37
28
77
New Brunswick
1
0
0
Ontario
37
9
67
Quebec
31
10
63
East Arctic
8
2
21
West Arctic
2
2
2
Practice Cliffs
20
2
36
UNITED STATES
Alaska
513
188
870
13
4
19
Arizona, Nevada
Texas
93
18
170
2
0
2
Atlantic-North
977
148
1680
27
2
53
Atlantic-South
107
25
186
11
2
21
California
1286
295
2553
19
1
32
Central
135
18
218
1
0
1
Colorado
767
213
2308
12
3
23
Montana, Idaho
South Dakota
83
32
134
1
1
1
Oregon
207
111
471
4
1
10
Utah, New Mexico
167
59
309
8
1
13
Washington
1043
319
**882
***7
2
16
Wyoming
562
131
1014
7
2
12
* No reports from 2006-2008
** This number was incorrect last year. It should have been 867, not 16.
*** In a party of two, one accident happened on the ascent and the second accident happened to the deceased’s climbing partner on the descent.