Monday, October 11, 2010

Mountaineering Accidents

Tons of charts and graphs about climbing accidents in the US at this website.

Here’s one I liked. Looks like we’re pretty safe here in the Midwest.

2 comments:

Lisa said...

I am LOVIN' this map! Question: If someone fell of Barn Bluff would they even call it a mountaineering accident?

richard said...

Yes it includes all kinds of rock climbing accidents including gym climbing. All of the statistics are here:
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/pt/accidentsinnorthamericanmountaineeringstatistics