Accident

The climber fell 130 feet due to “equipment failure”

Vertical World and Perfect Descent manufacture settle with climber who sustained 30-foot fall 

Climber in critical condition following gear-ripping fall on pitch four of The Great White Wall

Hector Diffut, 26, fell 30 feet from the top of an indoor wall after forgetting to clip into the auto belay. 

When both lead ropes get cut in the Potrero, the author is doomed unless the unexpected and unexplained can intervene.

Andrew Evans was on ‘Gardiner Buttress’ in the Beartooth Mountains when the incident occurred.

The story of the deadly avalanche in October 2022 on India’s Draupadi Ka Danda II.

The 26-year-old female was on ‘Blitzen Ridge.’

This one will make your palms sweat.

Kaitlyn Brann, 34, was killed by rockfall on a popular route

Eli Michel and Nafiun Awal went missing while climbing on the 10,335-foot Moose’s Tooth in Denali National Park over the weekend.

This past July, Ali Akbar Sakhi, a 36-year-old father of three, died on K2 after spending a night alone at seven thousand meters. Questions remain about what, if anything, could have been done to save him.

Cohen Schaumann is recuperating in the hospital, after a brutal ground fall on April 21 while rappelling 'Rope-de-Dope Crack' (5.8). 

The element of years has eroded the great bulk of our time together, but by looking back, I still remember his sense of freedom—I'm reminded to think how he wanted to think and make plans.

A veteran climber is dead, another is missing, and multiple others are lucky to be alive after a tragic few days in the Himalayas

Schweiger, 21, passed away Sunday, April 10, after he and his girlfriend were hit by a car while walking to a nearby ice cream store. 

This guy's cheapness brought danger to a new level.

Meg O’Neill died Sunday after a freak accident on 'Raven Falls' (WI4) when a large ice column broke. O’Neill saved the belayer’s life and the leader was seriously injured.

How did he get away with that?

River Barry, a climber in the right place at the right time, leads a daring rescue of a BASE jumper stranded high on a cliff.

Lauren Olivia Smith was partway up ‘Code Red’ in Hyalite when the pillar toppled over “like a falling tree,” triggering an avalanche.

With help just a button push away, deciding when you need a rescue can become the problem. (From 2021)

Writer Chris Van Leuven shares memories of Milligan, who was killed in a fall in Banff National Park.

The Basque climbers were killed after an ascent of the 'Afanassieff' when a large wet avalanche swept them into a crevasse.

The void swallowed him alive, his streaking form more easily imagined than described. The air froze in my chest.

On November 11, 2021, my climbing partner and I weathered two avalanches while on an alpine climb in Canada. We were simul soloing and dumb luck kept us alive.

The alpine knee isn’t always the move. Here’s what happens when it goes wrong.

Michael Wejchert’s first book profiles four keen climbers, their unlikely rescue from an obscure Alaskan peak, and the physical and emotional cost of living through it.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Climb long enough and you’ll have a close encounter ... or several. Of the myriad ways to kill yourself climbing, rappelling is the quickest, but also the easiest to safeguard.

It's a fantastical, unbelievable story, but the unbelievable really happened.

On Thursday, February 12, Wes Walker and Jason Grubb loaded up and drove 11 hours to Cody, Wyoming, for the annual South Fork Ice Festival. The two climbers, from Florida and Texas respectively, were enjoying their first season of ice climbing while living and working in the mountain town of Carbondale, Colorado.

After losing her life partner, Gisely “Gi” Ferraz learned how to regain her strength as a climber and a person while spreading his ashes from his favorite summits. On Fitz Roy, she confronted death. 

River Barry’s quick thinking resulted in the rescue of a severely injured base jumper—and possibly a new first ascent.

Some things are scarier than broken bones.... The author recounts the epics he's experienced throughout his climbing career. The ones that changed him were commonplace.

22-year-old Nathaniel Masahi Takatsuno fell about 200 feet.

Some days everything goes wrong.

An experience on the purple boulder problem at the gym altered the author's life course in an unexpected way.

The climbers were taking rappel cautions but clipped to a single old sling as their rappel anchor.

Three incidents in three days kept Aspen Mountain Rescue busy on Colorado's most difficult big peak.

“The Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin” is a ten-episode, cross-genre investigation into extreme sports athletes and the moments when, thanks to poor judgment or bad luck, they pushed too close to the edge. 

Brian Kennedy and Jack Beard died in a fall, following a likely first ascent of a remote spire.

After countless surgeries and skin grafts, the author was left with seven and three-quarter fingers. The road back to climbing wasn't easy.

The volcanic peaks Carihuairazo, Cayambe, and Illiniza Sur each saw serious accidents on August 13.

As a teenager he saw a terrible accident on El Capitan. A chance meeting 40 years later finally brought closure.

Turns out, it's pretty easy to make a mistake you know better than to make—but pretty hard to admit having done so.

Debris injures eight other climbers.

An outing on the Lightning Bolt Cracks attracted more than just climbers when lightning struck the summit.

The 67-year-old died after a fall on Independence Monument's Otto’s Route (5.8+)

29-year-old Dalton Snow was hospitalized after a trad fall while climbing on April 12, near Kings Bottom, Moab.

Head trauma is among the most feared and catastrophic injuries in climbing. So why aren't more rock climbers wearing helmets?

Check out Delaney Miller's author page.

“An Accidental Life,” streaming from the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2022 until February 26, tells the story of an accomplished big wall climber who was paralyzed by a 120-foot fall on the Nose, in Yosemite, in 2017.

Corrado “Korra” Pesce and his partner had completed a new route on Cerro Torre’s east and north face when a rime-ice mushroom collapsed on him.

A lone climber took a fatal fall after finishing a rope solo in Colorado’s Clear Creek on Wednesday, January 19.

Coming untied from the rope while on lead doesn't happen every day, but it happens often enough that you should put the scenario on your radar.

Finally, there's an affordable option.

A 26-year-old climber is in critical condition after being struck by a block knocked down from above.

Andrew Allen Arvig, 31, passed away during the night of Saturday, November 27, after overshooting a ledge while rappelling and becoming stranded overnight.

Check out Anthony Walsh's author page.

A tiny ledge three pitches off the ground. The anchor is unclipped. Your belayer has just fallen over the edge. Now what?

Check out Frederick Dreier's author page.

A fridge-sized block dislodged. The rope was let go. Both climber and guide survived, but the climber wants reparations. 

Everyone has heard of the distraught mother lifting a car off of her baby. But grabbing a bolt while saving a falling climber? That one is new.

Six surgeries in 13 months is a lot, and a lot of recovery and painkillers, and Kelly Cordes will tell you he was a little whacked even before that. An alpine, ice and rock climber, Kelly broke his ankle and pulverized his tib-fib ice climbing. He tore his knee. He destroyed his shoulder. But the worst insult was yet to come.“Leave it to me,” he says.

The avalanche on Chimborazo (20,549 feet) is the deadliest Ecuadorian climbing accident in nearly 30 years. We speak with local guides about the incident, the growing trend of unlicensed and illegal guides, and what this means for the local industry.

Mason Boos, 25, passed away on Sunday, October 10 after a fall caused by loose rock while scrambling third class terrain.

Check out Owen Clarke's author page.

Check out Steven Potter's author page.

Check out Kevin Corrigan's author page.

Check out Owen Clarke's author page.

In a wilderness emergency, the tiniest details can be a matter of life and death. After a pair of accidents leave one one young adventurer injured and another deceased, Hayden Seder ponders the difference a stroke of luck can make.