Sad day in Zion NP

Tumbling fall on the approach pitch, hitting multiple ledges. Unroped and no helmet as stated in the KSL piece.
http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2014/10/20/climber-dies-fall-zion-national-park/

Marc801 wrote:Tumbling fall on the approach pitch, hitting multiple ledges. Unroped and no helmet as stated in the KSL piece. http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2014/10/20/climber-dies-fall-zion-national-park/

Bummer. Approachs to climbs can be hazardous.

Corrected link : stgeorgeutah.com/news/archi…

I remember rapping that "1st" pitch and getting a nasty core shot pulling the ropes on the way down. When my partner came down the sheath got bunched up in her ATC, leaving nothing but the core strands! She let out a yell but reattached the device below the damaged section, gingerly rapping the last ~50 feet.

It's pretty low angle but a fall would be (clearly) nasty -- be careful out there and wear a helmet! That ain't Wingate down there.

Dylan B. wrote:From the article: This is the fourth fatal accident in Zion National Park in 2014 and the eighth climbing fatality since 1983. WTF? Four fatal injuries in 30 years, and then another four in a single year? What's going on?

The other three deaths this year were drownings and base jumping...I think 2009 was the last fatal climbing accident where a climber was jugging a haul line on Touchstone which was fixed though a ProTraxion on p3 or 4...

And one of those other 4 deaths in the past 30 years was a boy scout going off the top of Angel's Landing around 10 years ago.

Marc801 wrote:And one of those other 4 deaths in the past 30 years was a boy scout going off the top of Angel's Landing around 10 years ago.