Climber injured and stranded on Humboldt Peak
Forum rules
Please be respectful when posting - family and friends of fallen climbers might be reading this forum.
Please be respectful when posting - family and friends of fallen climbers might be reading this forum.
- Geof3
- Posts: 572
- Joined: 5/14/2006
- 14ers: 23 5 1
- Trip Reports (0)
Bad deal... Hope he fares well. Glad he has a couple of bags, but his injuries are the troublesome part of this. A night out is manegable when healthy, much more difficult with potentially severe injuries.
Prayers to both... USA-K must be in anquish having to leave him up there. All will be well!!!
Prayers to both... USA-K must be in anquish having to leave him up there. All will be well!!!
Blue Steel
Caroline didnt fall...David was the only one injured.ScottieB wrote:My prayers for David tonight. I assume SAR will start early tomorrow morning? Did both of them fall on the glissade or just David? Or was David the only one injured in the fall?OBX Fisherman wrote:From what USA Keller said the SAR was called off tonight because of too much danger of avalanche. The team was making slow progress up due to heavy gear and lots of snow.
She said David was "glacading" (sp?) down a section of mountain and picked up too much speed and could not stop due to no ice ax and went over an edge and landed on some rocks. She said he could not move one arm and one leg.
I know he will make it.
Gary
I feel ya man, thoughts and prayers your way David.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming WOW! WHAT A RIDE."- Hunter S Thompson
- Darryl Dunlap
- Posts: 117
- Joined: 1/2/2007
- 14ers: 50
- Trip Reports (0)
-
- Posts: 206
- Joined: 3/13/2006
- 14ers: 39
- 13ers: 15
- Trip Reports (1)
KKTV posted a brief about it this morning, nothing more than what has already been mentioned in this thread, though:
http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/7367516.html
http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/7367516.html
- jimlup
- Posts: 903
- Joined: 7/13/2006
- 14ers: 27 1
- 13ers: 8
- Trip Reports (3)
- intrinsic
- Posts: 38
- Joined: 10/15/2006
- 14ers: 9
- Trip Reports (0)
- Slow Moving Fun Seeker
- Posts: 431
- Joined: 9/10/2006
- 14ers: 24
- 13ers: 13
- Trip Reports (0)
- FlyGirl
- Posts: 484
- Joined: 8/7/2006
- 14ers: 23
- Trip Reports (0)
Oh no! Talusmonkey! Where was your Reddi-Whip? You could have engaged the emergency switch on the side of the can which releases the motherload of cream and landed in a big puffy pile of the whipped stuff.
No seriously! I am concerned. I know you'll pull through A-OK!
I want a full trip report on your safe return!
No seriously! I am concerned. I know you'll pull through A-OK!
I want a full trip report on your safe return!
Move like a heron, not like a water buffalo
- guitmo223
- Posts: 1048
- Joined: 7/30/2006
- 14ers: 25
- Trip Reports (0)
This is the first I've heard of this and it is pretty scary. I don't know how much snow the Sangres got, but we got at least a foot here in Woodland.
I'm kind of surprised that David would have tried glissading without an ice axe, but I guess I've done that before and I've been lucky.
Well, my prayers are going out to you right now TM. Bueno suerte!
I'm kind of surprised that David would have tried glissading without an ice axe, but I guess I've done that before and I've been lucky.
Well, my prayers are going out to you right now TM. Bueno suerte!
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred it be postponed" - Sir Winston Churchill
- getout!
- Posts: 18
- Joined: 3/15/2007
- Trip Reports (0)
monkey rescue
Purple satin pimp suits must pick up lots of speed in spring conditions...a bling'd out iced up gold pimp cane could have been used for self arrest....maybe next time.
Best wishes to a safe rescue and speedy recovery.
Best wishes to a safe rescue and speedy recovery.
- Greenhouseguy
- Posts: 987
- Joined: 9/20/2006
- 14ers: 41 10
- 13ers: 185 5
- Trip Reports (71)
- Contact:
Best Wishes
Best wishes to TalusMonkey. I'm sure that he had the savvy to make it through the night. It helps to have a first-rate partner like USAKeller. I hope that we'll be able to help him during his recovery.
"May your boulder be your blessing." - Aron Ralston
- Rockymtnhigh69
- Posts: 1265
- Joined: 5/30/2006
- 14ers: 31
- 13ers: 4
- Trip Reports (9)
- Contact:
This is terrible news.. I hope he is ok and whisked off the mountain shortly.. Prayers go out to you TM.. Hang in there USAKELLER.. He will be ok..
On my first take-off, I hit second gear and went through the speed limit on a two-lane blacktop highway full of ranch traffic. By the time I went up to third, I was going 75 and the tach was barely above 4000 rpm....
And that's when the Ducati got its second wind. From 4000 to 6000 in third will take you from 75 mph to 95 in two seconds - and after that, Bubba, you still have fourth, fifth, and sixth. Ho, ho.
~Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature
(VT)
And that's when the Ducati got its second wind. From 4000 to 6000 in third will take you from 75 mph to 95 in two seconds - and after that, Bubba, you still have fourth, fifth, and sixth. Ho, ho.
~Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature
(VT)