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The climbing is all bunched together! I want to know if it’s mountaineering, alpine Trad climbing, or all climbing that is causing that Tetons figure. EDIT: I
by embwbam 7y ago
The climbing is all bunched together! I want to know if it’s mountaineering, alpine Trad climbing, or all climbing that is causing that Tetons figure.
EDIT: I read the source. Looks like mostly mountaineering/unroped accidents. Now I can delude myself again! Use protection!
“TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE ROUTES
Most climbers were hurt during climbs of lesser difficulty. (Table 3). The category of 5.1 to 5.3 yielded the highest number of accidents, injuries, and fatalities.
CLIMBING EXPERIENCE OF INJURED CLIMBERS
Climbers with less experience appeared to be more frequently involved in accidents than were those with more experience. (It was possible to precisely determine the experience of the climbers in only about 50% of the accidents.) Of those climbers whose experience levels were known, 50% either had no previous climbing experience or less than one year of experience.
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The errors observed in the rock climbing accidents fell into two categories: seven cases of obvious lack of needed protection, and four cases where a rope should have been used but was not available. In contrast to other climbing areas, little intentional free solo (unroped) climbing was attempted in the Tetons during this study”
- Fricken 7y agoIt's funny, the world of high end extreme alpinism has lost several of it's very best climbers the past 3 years. Uli Steck, Marc Andre LeClerc, David Lama and Hansjorg Auer all specialized in unroped climbing in extreme Alpine terrain. Yet it wasn't falls that killed them, they were all killed by falling snow and ice.
- cbsks 7y agoUeli Steck was killed by a fall when climbing alone. We don't know what caused the fall. https://www.outsideonline.com/2188941/last-days-ueli-steck https://www.outsideonline.com/2188941/last-days-ueli-steck
- Fricken 7y agoI thought he was killed by a collapsing serac, I'm not even sure how the idea got into my head.