NEWSNATIONNOW (John Houghton) - Video: Rock climber rescued by helicopter at Courtright Reservoir
The man who fell down the Power Dome badly injured his foot.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Crew rescues climber stranded on 700-foot sheer cliff
A helicopter crew pulled off a daring rescue on Sierra Nevada's towering "Power Dome" after a rock climber became stranded on the near-vertical rock face.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - WATCH: California climber rescued from 700-foot cliff
A helicopter crew saved a hiker who was stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains after an injury.
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YOUTUBE (CNN) - Multiple climbers killed after Russian avalanche
At least 11 people were killed and six others injured after an avalanche struck a group of 33 climbers in Russia’s Mount Mizhirgi, one of the highest peaks in the North Caucasus, according to emergency officials.
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Austrian mountain guide loses licence after grabbing climber on exposed ridge at 10,000 feet
An Austrian mountain guide surrendered his licence and faces a police investigation after helmet-camera footage captured him allegedly grabbing a Polish climber on a narrow, exposed ridge high on Austria's tallest peak, a confrontation that began when the guide barged past the climber's wife while she was lowering herself on a rope. The incident occurred […] The post Austrian mountain guide loses licence after grabbing climber on exposed ridge at 10,000 feet appeared first on American Almanac .
An Austrian mountain guide surrendered his licence and faces a police investigation after helmet-camera footage captured him allegedly grabbing a Polish climber on a narrow, exposed ridge high on Austria's tallest peak, a confrontation that began when the guide barged past the climber's wife while she was lowering herself on a rope. The incident occurred on August 22 along the Mürztalersteig route on the Grossglockner, Austria's highest mountain at 12,460 feet. The Polish climber and his wife were making their way toward the Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte refuge, roughly 10,000 feet above sea level, when the guide, leading two clients, wedged himself between the couple on one of the route's most exposed sections. The wife was mid-descent on a…Open
YOUTUBE (Fox News) - WATCH: Helicopter crew rescues stranded hikers from cliff #shorts #foxnews #fox #news
Dramatic video shows a CHP rescue technician dangling from a helicopter to reach two climbers stranded roughly 600 feet below a Big Sur roadway near Hurricane Point, securing them in a harness and lifting them to safety. #foxnews #news #us #fox Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox News Patriot today. https://youtube.com/foxnews/join
NYTIMES (Ishani Desai) - Climber Stranded for Hours on 6-Inch Rock Ledge Before Rescue
Racing against the darkness, rescuers in California on Saturday saved a man who had become stranded on a ledge perched atop a soaring peak on the Sierra Nevada.
AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Melting Swiss glacier surrenders bodies of two Belgian climbers missing since 1992
DNA testing has confirmed that two bodies found on a fast-shrinking glacier in southern Switzerland belong to a pair of Belgian mountaineers who vanished 34 years ago, the latest case of retreating ice giving up the dead. A hiker crossing the Trift Glacier on July 26 spotted the remains and alerted authorities. Wallis Police launched […] The post Melting Swiss glacier surrenders bodies of two Belgian climbers missing since 1992 appeared first on American Almanac .
DNA testing has confirmed that two bodies found on a fast-shrinking glacier in southern Switzerland belong to a pair of Belgian mountaineers who vanished 34 years ago, the latest case of retreating ice giving up the dead. A hiker crossing the Trift Glacier on July 26 spotted the remains and alerted authorities. Wallis Police launched a recovery operation and transported the bodies to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Wallis Hospital in Sion, where scientists ran DNA comparisons against records of long-missing climbers. The results were conclusive. Wallis Police confirmed the identities in a statement: "A direct comparison of DNA profiles conclusively established that the individuals were two mountaineers who had been missing in the…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Melting Swiss glacier reveals two Belgian climbers missing since 1992
DNA testing has confirmed the identities of two Belgian mountaineers whose bodies emerged from a retreating glacier in southern Switzerland, 34 years after they vanished without a trace. A hiker spotted the remains on the Trift Glacier on July 26 and reported the find to regional police in Wallis canton, the Swiss administrative region that […] The post Melting Swiss glacier reveals two Belgian climbers missing since 1992 appeared first on American Almanac .
DNA testing has confirmed the identities of two Belgian mountaineers whose bodies emerged from a retreating glacier in southern Switzerland, 34 years after they vanished without a trace. A hiker spotted the remains on the Trift Glacier on July 26 and reported the find to regional police in Wallis canton, the Swiss administrative region that borders Italy. The bodies were transported to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Wallis Hospital in Sion, where analysts built DNA profiles and matched them against records of the missing men. Wallis police confirmed the results in a statement, closing a case that had been open for more than three decades. The two men, Belgian nationals aged 39 and 41 at the time, disappeared in the Weissmies…Open
NYTIMES (Francesca Regalado) - Jake Whisenant, Who Raced Up Yosemite’s El Capitan at Record Speed, Dies in a Fall
Authorities in California said he died in a climbing accident. He set a record in 2024 for climbing El Capitan’s Lurking Fear route in under three hours.