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ec
climber
ca
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'just think...that was the easy part!
Yikes!
 ec
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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What a wanker. that dude had zero buisnes being up there unroped without a guide. Annother vote for simply dial 911 the moment you see a go pro on a climbing helmet cause you just know there is gonna be a wreck.....
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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dude's lucky he didn't catch his crampons and break his ankles
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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That guy so lucky to be alive. His ass must hurt like hell.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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All hail tradmanclimbs.He is not a "wanker" and would not be there,unroped without a guide.Also,apparently he is impervious to falling ice.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Trust me on this one. that guy was a total wanker who does not know how to even hold his tools. I knew that guy was going to come off way before the falling object hit him. BTW when you are climbing and you get bombed, sink your tools, make yourself small, hunker up looking down, hang on and hope it hits your pack or helmet and take your lumps. Done it thousands of times. letting go and trying to catch it is butt ugly stupid wanker move..
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Eric showing proper form while getting bombed...
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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been there; done that. Soloing Great White Icicle outside of Salt Lake. What is it, maybe 400 feet of moderate water ice, but falling on it would be way bad. Anyway, something biggish flew off the top, took a bad hop, and missed my face by millimeters only to whack my shoulder pretty damn hard. Maybe even skinned my nose as I jerked by head to the side. Anyway, I held my ground but learned a lesson. Climbing can be dangerous....
We were all wankers once. Some still are...
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Agree with 'tradmanclimbs.' When there is falling ice from above you set your tools and lean into the slope to make yourself 1) as small as possible and 2) a low aspect ratio so if something does hit you it does so as a glancing blow and not 'head on.'
Of course, we will never know if the ice would have hit him or not, but very poor reaction by the climber.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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I live eat and breathe ice in the winter. Soloing had a good chunk hit above my ear but below the coverage of my POS half dome and split my skull to the bone. Never let go or even let it mess with my zone. topped out and hiked back to the van for medicinal whisky and home brewed butterfly stiches.. Been hit and bruised or taken it on the lid or pack too many times to even begin to count....
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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just from what you see of his hands and breathing he does not look solid. feels weak. no buisness soloing.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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looked like he tried to Dikembe Mutumbo the falling ice
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RDB
Social climber
wa
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I believe the guy broke both ankles if not legs as well.
Hooking a crampoin will do that every time given enough speed and leverage.
I wouldn't get too uppity though. Next piece of ice might well knock your own soxes off.
photo courtesy of Will Gadd
Nice shot of a tiny bit of spin drift. If it were serious you wouldn't even recognise a climber in there. Which isn't anything close to chunks of ice. Of course we all recognise that, right?
winter conditions...the kind we climb in on occasion
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johnkelley
climber
Anchorage Alaska
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Mar 10, 2013 - 12:08am PT
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Here's a few Steve Stein took of me on the North Couloir of Yukla.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Mar 10, 2013 - 12:19am PT
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Great sequence of shots there John Kelly.
I can't believe your belayer had the stones to keep shooting.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 10, 2013 - 07:50am PT
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Sorry I don't have a better photo for you. 99.9% of the time I am the one on the sharp end not takeing photos..
Dude had a go pro on his head which increased his chances of falling by at least 200% Then there is the britt factor. Britts on ice= annother 200% increase in the odds of an accident.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Mar 10, 2013 - 08:18am PT
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Did you catch the part at the end where he reaches up to check if his GoPro is still there?
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Mar 10, 2013 - 09:40am PT
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Haha JohnKelly, I saw your first photo and thought...wow, that looks like a serious natural funnel hope that the rocks are frozen in solid and before the thought had finished scrolled into your next shots.....
Great photo sequence.
Looks like the definition of what "ButtHurt" is. You can't really tell how hard the snow is. It doesn't look like the gopro fella did any end over end cartwheels. Probably means it wasn't as steep as the camera lets on, as bad as that was, if he'd come off higher up it looks like it would have been much much worse. Dayam.
Buddy at work was showing me one of 2 guys who'd climbed to the top of a steep Mountain to ski off it, one dude appears to fall off before he can get his skiis set and the ensuring tumble misses the couilar it looks like they'd been thinking of, flies down a rocky headwall and really looks bad. But the guy is setting up at the end of it.
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