Crazy Ice fall story

[Lambone]

 

So we were up waiting in line to climb Louise Falls, messing around on this cool thin smear to the left...

 

And this guy walks up by himself with a metal detector. I'm thinking hey, this guy is smart...trying to score booty from a popular climb. We chat andit turns out he is up to look for his lost ice tool.

 

He points up to the climb and says,"see that broken off pillar up to the right..."

 

That thing tore lose while he was on the route! His buddy was belaying in the cave beside the pilar, and he was following the pitch.

 

It is hard to tel from the photo, but this piece of ice was fucking huge! About ten feet across, three feet thick and 30 ft long. The dude is lucky to be alive, turns out he just had a bruised rib and lost some gear.

 

Here is a link to some discussion about it on live_the_vision.com

 

http://www.live-the-vision.com/wwwboard/messages/3309.html

 

Didn't look like he ever found his took. He started trying to shovel through tons of ice piled at the base, and it looked utterly hopeless...