Sad News From Mexico

A German climber lost his life after he was climbing in the municipality of Hidalgo.

Civil Protection Department said the accident report was received last night at 21:00 .

But weather conditions , explained a source , the rescue will take place in the course of the morning .

Although it was reported yesterday that the nationality of the mountaineer was American , today confirmed that it is in Germany.

This morning only said that the climber suffered a fall of several meters that caused his death on the Potrero Chico community in the Pico del Tordo place .

falling about 11 pitches,

This weekend, while Richard and I were #climbing on this spire, and the guys were on the opposing big wall, an experienced German climber in between us had just finished 24 pitches of intense climbing and was setting up to rappel down on his initial descent. For reasons unknown, he did not have knots tied into the ends of his rope, and so he rappelled off the end of his rope. He hit another climber leading on pitch 19 below him, landed somewhere on a ledge on the wall, and was not found that evening. Richard talked to the climber that was hit by the falling man, and though he was shaken and in disbelief, he was uninjured. Our guys were just getting off the wall that night when police, ambulances, and other climbers were trying to figure out what to do. There was talk about rallying a group of experienced climbers to search and recover (because there is no search and rescue/recovery in #PotreroChico) The following day a chopper flew in to recover the German man's body. To everyone's disbelief, soon after the chopper arrived, a second young climber from Arkansas took a similar fall. Though a group of climbers rushed in to offer medical aid, he lost his life as well. We ask everyone to take a moment and pray for the families and friends of these two. It has left a heavy sorrowful pain on our group as we head out in disbelief. We encourage all #climbers to never hesitate to check and recheck you and your partners gear at every opportunity, and always knot the ends of your ropes. Words cannot explain the amount of love prayers and condolences we extend towards the families of their beloved adventurers.

Seeing the bird while you're #climbing is never a good thing. While this was a body recovery mission, we had no f*#king clue what horrible, life-changing events lay just a few hours ahead. While rappelling off Estrellita in #elpotrerochico, #mexico, a member of the party directly below us fell about 300 feet from the top of the third rappel. We called an ambulance from where we were on the fourth rappel and knew there was little to do at that point but get ourselves down safely. Fellow climbers with medical training rushed up and tried everything, but the young climber from Arkansas was gone. Several dozen more climbers came up to assist with body recovery, only to be hassled for hours afterward by the Mexican authorities for moving the body. No one can believe two climbers died in two days in separate but similar rappel accidents here, a place where there are only two deaths since it has been developed.