Climbing accidents reddit If you want to see a demographic breakdown of the same data, I also put together a dashboard that lets you filter the data by age, experience level, and style of climbing to see what factors are most likely to cause an accident for you have been cited in the most accident reports for people in your demographic. It entails approximately eight technical pitches from 5 Roughly 30000 people summit HD each year. I'm the front range I've only heard of two deaths in climbing gyms in the last 10 years, both auto belay related, whereas there is usually at least one death per year in the outdoor climbing community, which is tracked and documented by the American Alpine club. Had to be airlifted out and she made a full recovery. For example, perhaps the "accidents on descent" wisdom refers to "mountain" objectives (where there is an actual descent to deal with, and it might be different from the ascent route) and the stats in this post might include all climbing, where indoor climbing (including top ropr and auto-belays) and sport climbing might not have so much of a 1. I get the impression this will become the new norm for gyms around the country. With social media and internet forums you now hear about every accident with anyone loosely connected to the scene. My current perception is "Car accidents are >20 times as likely to kill me than climbing accidents, and climbing is twice as likely to kill me as hiking", so it's a risk, but one I'm willing to take (and the exercise probably decreases my risk of dying of common health problems). Climbing magazine caught up with Ourada in a phone call to find out more details about the accident and to learn how his recovery is going. I believe this has been the case since the inception of the publication decades ago. rlcaoxglwmfpdeqetoefiboxqldabzlykaoylwsewkafvujvlfflyjzgsazfojsnydsjgcrluv