Fatality on Rainier

[olyclimber]

Link

 

Rest in peace.

[Billygoat]

Bad news

 

RIP

 

I wonder if they were coming off the ledges or were actually climbing straight up the chute?

[catbirdseat]

Sounds like it was the exit chute. Climbers have fallen of the Ledges/ Chute and survived, but it's a long way down.

[Kraken]

Man, that's awful...and kinda creepy. We were on the exit chute part after we continued the climb after the ledges in March, it would be a long fall down that thing.

[skyhigh]

Here's another more detailed article. Bummer click here for the News Tribune article

[soggyendo34]

The two climbers where ascending the gib ledges. The fall happend at the top of the gib chute. The climber fell down the chute 800-1000'. His partner down climbed the gib chute and started CPR but couldnt get a pulse.

[Kraken]

Kinda weird isn't it Andy? Knowing we were there justa few months ago?

[catbirdseat]

I thought we were maybe sissies at the time for placing flukes on the exit chute. I feel better now about that decision.

[Couloir]

I thought we were maybe sissies at the time for placing flukes on the exit chute. I feel better now about that decision.

As a running belay or an actual belay? This over a picket? Was it pretty soft? I haven't used a fluke in years, but I guess that's only becasue a picket always seems to suffice. There are a couple of sections that are almost better to do in the dark so you don't see what the runout is like.

[Billygoat]

hey, there's another thread tackling these issues...

[catbirdseat]

As a running belay or an actual belay? This over a picket? Was it pretty soft? I haven't used a fluke in years, but I guess that's only becasue a picket always seems to suffice.

It was a running belay and we used three flukes. Pickets would have been absolutely useless, even as deadmen. This was winter conditions.

There are a couple of sections that are almost better to do in the dark so you don't see what the runout is like.

I hear ya.