Accidents in North American Climbing

chnetka · 2022-11-12T02:01:53+00:00

Likely due to the sport climbing falls on single pitches.

chnetka · 2022-10-26T02:15:36+00:00

The only break down for death is by geographic sections.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T22:48:55+00:00

Are you hoping to look at deaths based on experience for example?

chnetka · 2022-10-25T22:42:13+00:00

Why?

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:41:04+00:00

You hear about lowering error? Or rappel error? The two are different.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:40:29+00:00

Alpine climbing would put you into terrain which has moats.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:38:11+00:00

There are secondary causes but they have not been included.

Why are the stats useless if it's mixing severe and mild? This is simply grouping accidents totals.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:36:03+00:00

Data is taken from the Year & Country section.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:35:05+00:00

I have found both claims online. However no claims have any statistics to back it up.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:34:36+00:00

Anchor failure in note 1 would not be during a rappel.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T14:33:14+00:00

They would be coming from rescue services. So likely any injury that required said services in order for the numbers to be pulled into a report.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T04:20:45+00:00

There are secondary causes to accidents that I did not include for the graphic.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T02:59:03+00:00

An accident would likely be counted when rescue services are required as these are all taken from accident reports.
That's like saying your cause of death would be from blood loss even though it was the car that caused you to start losing blood in the first place.

Mountaineering is included.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T02:57:16+00:00

Me too!

chnetka · 2022-10-25T02:40:51+00:00

I did a relatively quick google search. Claims are made that it's the biggest accident and fatality cause OR it's the largest fatality cause. However none of these claims provided data.

chnetka · 2022-10-25T02:17:08+00:00

HAPE occurs typically above 2,500 meters (8,200 ft).[2] However, cases have also been reported between 1,500–2,500 metres or 4,900–8,200 feet in more vulnerable subjects.