A third climber, identified as James Tiberious Kirk, 57, of Riverside, Iowa, also fell but was miraculously uninjured when located.
Posted on 06/02/2018 7:25:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Park officials said the climbers had been attempting to climb the Freeblast Route, according to a post on the Mariposa Gazette’s Facebook page.
Authorities withheld the identities of the climbers pending notification of next of kin. The investigation was ongoing.
Saturday’s incident came nearly two weeks after a hiker fell to his death while ascending the Half Dome trail during thunderstorm activity, officials said.
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Cue that sound Wile E. Coyote makes when he falls.
The climbers were identified as Jason Wells, 46, of Boulder, Colo., and Tim Klein, 42, of Palmdale, Calif., according to Yosemite Park.
Not young guys. Sad either way.
The Antelope Valley Press tomorrow may have more details.
I know one guy who failed to make it around the last leg or face of EC. He succeeded 5 years later. He’s a surfing buddy of mine near the PCH. His climbing buddy broke his leg and was hanging off the east ledge, and he had to go back for him.
I know one guy who failed to make it around the last leg or face of EC. He succeeded 5 years later. He’s a surfing buddy of mine near the PCH. His climbing buddy broke his leg and was hanging off the east ledge, and he had to go back for him.
Ping!
Prayers to their families. I have always had a fear of heights and every time I see someone hanging off a cliff with nothing between them and a thousand foot fall but a hand hole or a foot hole that can give away any second I just feel sick. I have heard that sick excuse that it makes them feel “alive”. I don’t understand this country, The government feels it has the right to tell you that you can not smoke (which I do deplore) because it is so dangerous to your health but then says nothing when people die from doing something so wreckless as climbing a sheer cliff with nothing to stop them from falling. Again, prayers to the family, I hope in their last second the climbers, or rather fallers, realized how their wreckless behavior resulting in death was going to hurt the people who loved them.
Dangerous stuff; but I guess it’s got to be done. Because it’s there (that’s the way I’ve heard it since I was young).
One more reason to fear heights ping!
A third climber, identified as James Tiberious Kirk, 57, of Riverside, Iowa, also fell but was miraculously uninjured when located.
I totally agree.
From my back arcadia door I can see Camelback Mountain. Every year at least one person dies from a fall on it. People also climb it in the highest heat in the summer here in Phoenix. Dehydration, heart attacks just some of the other killers for those climbs.
Nice!!
I stopped climbing after a rockfall crushed my leg. A lot of fun until it nearly kills you.
As trite as this sounds, they were doing something - very difficult, to say the least, when they left.
Beats being hit by a drunk, illegal, Guatemalan driving a stolen '53 Studebaker...
Hope their friends and family understand.
I have never, ever had any desire to mountain climb.
I must lack the gene.
Sad.
I spent some time there a few years ago.
I saw people crawling up the side of those granite cliffs. I got vertigo just looking UP at them. It’s a long way down.
i don’t even like to climb a step ladder5 these days lol
if i stand on a napkin i get vertigo now
What Star Trek episode or film is that scene from?
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