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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 2, 2009 - 02:37pm PT
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Up to 33 from 26 in '07.
Grand Canyon is most used.
(BTW Thelma and Louise went off below Deadhorse Point but CALLED it "the Grand Canyon". The state park guys probably appreciate THAT.)
BITD a guy jumped into Ute Canyon in Colorado National Monument and landed hundreds of feet from the wall.
Early wingsuiter perhaps?
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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I have seen glass (winsheild) down in the canyon walking out of CNM I guess it happens more than we hear about
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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What do you suppose is their last thought before they hit the ground? Relief, regret, WTF, their life story, loved one's or just plain emotional pain?
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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I have never seen glass walking anywhere!
:-)
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Gunkie
climber
East Coast US
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What do you suppose is their last thought before they hit the ground? Relief, regret, WTF, their life story, loved one's or just plain emotional pain?
From the documentry, 'The Bridge', survivors say regret & WTF [did I just do?].
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Gotta wonder if that regret is universal, or if the people inclined to feel it, when only maimed, have a stronger will to live than others might, and are more apt to pull through and thus are better represented in those numbers of responses, mentioned?
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
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I cut and pasted a few that i was hoping to put in a " Murders / Suicides in Yosemite " type (future) thread , but they charge 3 bucks a story for archived news . . . Saturday August 25, 2001
Climbers are Eye Witnesses
Falling Fatality from Half Dome!
By Amy Williams, Staff Writer
YOSEMITE -- Dan Horner of the NPS released a report that three Spanish climbers saw a person fall from the top of Half Dome and hit the ground about 250 feet from their position around 6:30 a.m. on August 17th.
They then descended to Yosemite Valley and reported the incident around 9:30 a.m.
The park's search & rescue and helitack teams and a special agent flew to the area, investigated, and recovered the body.
No identification was found on the victim, and he remained unidentified until his fingerprints were matched those of Vladimir Boutkovski, a 24-year-old Santa Clara man. He was identified through fingerprint matches on file with the State of California.
The death is being investigated as a possible suicide. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- 2008 : According to yesterday’s report from the Public Information Office at Yosemite, on July 29 a 27-year old man lept to his death off of 8,842 foot Half Dome. The report said it was a “high profile” suicide with no elaboration . This was the second suicide this summer. On June 13, a 36-year-old man jumped off El Capitan.
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