Death on Matthes Crest Saturday

3 people have died in Yosemite National Park while free-soloing to my knowledge. Hersey, Chan, and now him.

We had plans for evolution next week.

there was a soloist suffering from acute AMS on Cathedral Peak (and asking people for water, nausea, out of it) on Saturday as well. This was early afternoon from what I recall. Not sure if the same guy

He said he was dehydrated and had cramps and asked us if we were rapping down from the notch (we were continuing to the north summit). After that, he continued to solo up the north summit

Hindsight is 20/20, but it seems like whoever saw him up there should have dropped their own itinerary, intervened, and helped him back to camp.

... there was a soloist suffering from acute AMS on Cathedral Peak (and asking people for water, nausea, out of it) on Saturday as well.

A memorial will be held in Sebastopol where the couple lived and since Parker was an avid surfer there will be a ‘paddle out’ on Saturday morning where the Russian River meets the Pacific Ocean.

Did a cell phone call get out or was the only other option someone hiking out. I suppose those details will be in the accident report eventually.

I don't know Brad or Jainee, but this is sticking with me... thoughts along the line of "there but for the grace of God or a random twist of fate go I."

“What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.”