Never heard of this happening before

[JRCO]

Denver Channel

[Snafflehunter]

A sad way to go.

 

"Rocky Mountain Rescue Group member Kevin Harner said it's the first climbing death from asphyxiation he's ever heard of."

 

I guess he's never heard about a climber being killed in an avalanche where the climber was buried alive in the snow and subsequently died of asphyxiation??

[DPS]

A guy I work with said he saw a guy die this way ice climing in New Hampshire in the 70's. They used to use a keep cord on the ice tools clipped to a shoulder sling.

[Gary_Yngve]

A sad way to go.

 

"Rocky Mountain Rescue Group member Kevin Harner said it's the first climbing death from asphyxiation he's ever heard of."

 

I guess he's never heard about a climber being killed in an avalanche where the climber was buried alive in the snow and subsequently died of asphyxiation??

 

You're trusting the news media more than the rescuer?

 

DPS, thanks for posting. I had not heard of an actual climbing fatality with an MOI of strangulation.

 

Maybe this is a little inappropriate, but I would not have expected death by asphyxiation -- I would have thought an injury to the cervical spine or loss of blood to the brain.