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the shizzle => news => Topic started by: cheque on September 28, 2017, 09:25:41 am
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Huge rockfall- one dead. (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/27/554111362/rockfall-kills-one-person-at-yosemite-national-park) :'(
Apparently this affects The Prophet amongst other routes. (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/27/554111362/rockfall-kills-one-person-at-yosemite-national-park)
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It is reported here (http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3014875&msg=3015072#msg3015072) that a couple from Wales may have been affected.
Thoughts to those involved. Many of us will have strolled along the base of that cliff.
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It is reported here (http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3014875&msg=3015072#msg3015072) that a couple from Wales may have been affected.
Thoughts to those involved. Many of us will have strolled along the base of that cliff.
That's confirmed, unfortunately.
Welsh climber killed in Yosemite National Park rockslide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-41436218
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Saw some of the footage yesterday from a facebook page... :(
Thoughts to the families and friends of those involved.
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A second rockfall, bigger than the first
https://gripped.com/news/another-major-rockfall-off-el-cap-epic-size/
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The killed British climber has now been named. Look in the National Press if you want to know.
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:o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOTlCB_y30
Husband shielded and saved his wifes life in Yosemite rockfall at the expense of his own (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-41510371)
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Shit!
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Just super grim really to think whats happening on the screes below.. hate shit like that. :no:
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In case it's not clear, that video is from the smaller rockfalls later on day one, not the fatal one. It must have been terrifying to be anywhere near, wondering how much more would be coming down and who, if anyone, had been affected.
The following day was the biggie, which took out some of the route the guys in that video had been climbing. Webcam timelapse (http://archives.halfdome.net/) (view the inspiration point camera, from the 28th September, rockfall around 28 seconds).
View from Middle Cathedral.
https://youtu.be/1SH0Oj2dwUI
Greg Stock, YNP geologist, estimated this one as a shield of rock height 120 meters, width 45 meters, and thickness average of 2.5 meters with areas up to 8 meters (26 feet), giving a volume of 10,250 cubic meters and mass of 27,675 metric tons.
It reached the road but, amzingly, only one person was injured.
It has obliterated sections of some esoteric aid routes and Favresse and Ninov's Lost In Translation (http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/favresse-and-ninov-lost-in-translation-on-el-capitan.html). The Prophet and Secret Passage and the East Buttress appear not to be directly affected, though who knows what flying debris may have done to the lower sections of those routes.