Share your near-death experiences

mc-m3 · 10-20-2016, 12:55 AM

When I was 19, yes a long time ago, I was climbing Little Tahoma (bump on the side of Mt. Rainier) with a couple of friends. We were just getting to the transition from the glacier head wall to rock and I was the last one on the rope. First guy steps to the rock and sets a rock in motion down the glacier. This rock was ~1' x 5" and it coming down at me. I'm straight below it and start running (try running in crampons across 6' deep sun cups). Eventually I look up and the rock is still coming right at me, I jump and it hits me in the leg leaving a 3" long gash about 1" deep. If I hadn't jumped it would have hit me dead on. Some other climbers below saw the whole thing and said it looked like the rock had radar. It was a very long hike out that day.

5 years earlier in the same area on Mt. Rainier, we were crossing from the Frying Pan glacier to the Emmons glacier. I was already down and could not see the people above. I hear shouts of "rock". I can't see a thing, stand there a second and decide to hop to my right. The rock lands in my foot prints where I was standing.

I won't be going back to that area on the mountain.

swagon · 10-20-2016, 05:16 AM

Every time I come to OT section.

InternetFame · 10-20-2016, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by swagon

Every time I come to OT section.

Stay over at the M2 forums then!

swagon · 10-20-2016, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by InternetFame

Stay over at the M2 forums then!

Nah, it's not any better at all.

10-20-2016, 12:55 AM	#89
mc-m3 Private First Class 213 Rep 105 Posts Drives: 2006 X3, 2015 Panamera Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Seattle iTrader: (0)	When I was 19, yes a long time ago, I was climbing Little Tahoma (bump on the side of Mt. Rainier) with a couple of friends. We were just getting to the transition from the glacier head wall to rock and I was the last one on the rope. First guy steps to the rock and sets a rock in motion down the glacier. This rock was ~1' x 5" and it coming down at me. I'm straight below it and start running (try running in crampons across 6' deep sun cups). Eventually I look up and the rock is still coming right at me, I jump and it hits me in the leg leaving a 3" long gash about 1" deep. If I hadn't jumped it would have hit me dead on. Some other climbers below saw the whole thing and said it looked like the rock had radar. It was a very long hike out that day. 5 years earlier in the same area on Mt. Rainier, we were crossing from the Frying Pan glacier to the Emmons glacier. I was already down and could not see the people above. I hear shouts of "rock". I can't see a thing, stand there a second and decide to hop to my right. The rock lands in my foot prints where I was standing. I won't be going back to that area on the mountain.
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