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...really is not a sufficient reason for climbing a mountain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090614/ap_ ... iker_death

A male hiker fell to his death on Saturday while climbing Yosemite's famed Half Dome, park rangers said.

All Star Trek fun aside, that sucks.

IIRC, the cable runs up the backside of the mountain. It's not the shear face that you see people climbing up on.

Well...it was two different mountains anyway...but I just had to work something in.

2 experienced mountain climbing doctors fell to their death in Alaska this week as well.

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009 ... ckin/news/

GQfluffy wrote:All Star Trek fun aside, that sucks.

Wasn't that El Capitan?

I might catch some flack for this but what the hell. If there is a permanent cable on the mountain you are not "climbing" it.

captoveur wrote:

GQfluffy wrote:All Star Trek fun aside, that sucks.

Wasn't that El Capitan?

Yes...like I said-

GQfluffy wrote:Well...it was two different mountains anyway...but I just had to work something in.

Airfoilsguy wrote:If there is a permanent cable on the mountain you are not "climbing" it.

IIRC, climbing without ropes or other aids is known as free-climbing. But yes, part of me agrees with your point.

Tom in NO wrote:

Airfoilsguy wrote:If there is a permanent cable on the mountain you are not "climbing" it.

IIRC, climbing without ropes or other aids is known as free-climbing. But yes, part of me agrees with your point.

Cables or not, you wouldn't catch me trying it...

Boris wrote:
Cables or not, you wouldn't catch me trying it...

According to the article, the most recent death before this one occured almost two years ago, yet 50,000 climb it every year. I gotta say this, 1 death per 100,000 ascents up that thing?!?! I'm surprised it's not more.

And I'm with you, I ain't getting near it myself...

Tom in NO wrote:

Boris wrote:
Cables or not, you wouldn't catch me trying it...

According to the article, the most recent death before this one occured almost two years ago, yet 50,000 climb it every year. I gotta say this, 1 death per 100,000 ascents up that thing?!?! I'm surprised it's not more.

And I'm with you, I ain't getting near it myself...

A few years ago I was at Devil's Tower and this guy was about half way up and started hollering he was stuck... Couldn't hardly see him...



If you look close you can see his two friends above him... He's about 500-600 feet up...

Whatever floats your boat, but I'm not going up after him...