climbinfool

I live right next to fun rock where this incident happened and went over to assist, but ended up not being needed. Several of my friends did assist and this is the second hand information I received from them. A 25 year old female climber from Seattle fell from the anchors on a climb at the A-wall area. She stated that she had clipped into the anchors with a PAS and gone off belay so that she could untie the rope and clean the toprope anchor when she made a mistake and unclipped her PAS from the anchor. Since she was no longer on belay she fell with no resistance from the rope approximately 70 ft. hitting the rock several times on the way down and landed at the base of the climb. She was wearing a helmet at the time of the incident and sustained several open lower extremity fractures and presumably some level of internal and head trauma. Several first responders were on the scene initially and Aero Methow rescue services were able to respond pretty rapidly.They stabilized her injuries and pushed IV fluids since she had lost a significant amount of blood. She was taken from the scene via helicopter to a trauma center. That is the basics of it. Please keep in mind that this info is all second hand. If someone has better details, please feel free to clarify or correct anything I wrote.