Rock Fall

Yikes.

Things fall apart. In climbing, that can mean whole walls in far mountains, sections of cliffs from the San Jacintos to the Adirondacks and White Mountains, and iconic forms or features on area crags.

A tossed rock and a lost belay would have killed this leader if not for a miraculous landing among the boulders.

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It was a close call on the Big Stone when the route they were climbing started falling apart, and then most of the route did collapse.

In 2010, Mike Libecki set out for Afghanistan alone to tackle a series of remote first ascents. It would lead him to the closest call he's ever had in his life.

Smoothie is gone

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As temperatures warm, iconic routes are melting away and becoming more dangerous—even seeing their final ascents

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The stats and science behind the Valley’s constantly exfoliating granite.

File this under "worst case scenarios."

Yosemite geologists, with the help of climbers, are inching closer to answering the elusive question: "Why do rocks fall?"

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