{"id":338,"date":"2009-08-28T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=338"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:25:27","slug":"accidents-in-north-american-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/08\/accidents-in-north-american-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the AAC sends me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/193305610X\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Accidents in North American Mountaineering<\/a> as part of my membership.  It&#8217;s an annual recounting of some of the accidents and fatalities that happened in climbing and mountaineering that year.  It can make for depressing, though educational, reading.<\/p>\n<p>Usually there&#8217;s at least one incident that stands out for me, but this year there weren&#8217;t.  It did remind me of last year&#8217;s standout though, which happened on Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne where I just happened to be climbing a year ago.  When I read the story last year, I&#8217;d never climbed in Tuolumne and this accident report didn&#8217;t help my uneasiness about the area.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m back, I re-read the story and although it&#8217;s a reasonable story of small but mounting mistakes\/misfortunes that ultimately turn fatal, I now have the perspective to see that they made an odd, and critical, choice very early on.  Right from the beginning they were planning to rap the route and it&#8217;s those rappels that put most of the nails in the coffin.  Nowhere have I seen a topo suggest that you should plan to rap Cathedral.  Not that their unusual choice means they should have died, and not to suggest I wouldn&#8217;t ever make a similar set of mistakes, but it does help take the story out of the nightmare realm and move it to sad-but-possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the AAC sends me Accidents in North American Mountaineering as part of my membership. It&#8217;s an annual recounting of some of the accidents and fatalities that happened in climbing and mountaineering that year. It can make for depressing, though educational, reading. Usually there&#8217;s at least one incident that stands out for me, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing","category-non-fiction","tag-anam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}