Incase you missed this clip from July 1. An ice climber in Kennedy Gully has one very close call on rapidly melting terrain at the :34 second mark. Following the close call some helpful climbers toss him down a towrope just in the nick of time.
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I am amazed that they are find humor in this moment…from the looks of it the dude was seconds from death and they laugh it off! I guess I take life way too seriously…I’m gonna go ski the chimney blindfolded…
2 friends and I were riding on a spring day at Mt Bachelor it was an icy morning but soon turned to some nice corn. We were exploring the backside where we ended up on a 3-400 foot maybe 50 plus degree slope problem was the entire thing gradually got more and more jagged with clear/blue extremely solid ice. Literally like riding down the worst lava rock field Ive ever seen is the only example I can imagine of how bad these surface conditions were. We realized the situation we were in stopped to take a moment and before we SLOWLY descended we broke into hysterical laughter realizing we were close to death and if we didnt have the experience or gear we did at the time we probably woulda been life flighted out if even found considering nobody would want to go there. Cant exactly tell you why you laugh at the face of death but its a damn good reason people have come up with that saying.
I was just about to comment on the same thing, why do people chuckle, haha the dude was seconds from dying, funny, ha? Something about human nature…. Wylie Coyote falling in a puff of dust – maybe we all watched too much of that growing up?
whats that dufus doing up there?
I know nothing about ice climbing, but what the hell was he doing on a tiny sheet of ice on slick rock with that much water flowing through it? Is that in any way a good move?
Right? It looks like a thin slab of slush with a river running under it.
Why do climbers always wear such goofy looking helmets?
Because this guy is a goof ball. Should have went left for better ice or plugged in gear to the right. Obviously too warm or too late to be climbing ice anyway. Depending on how many screws he had below him, would determine his safety. Judging by this climbers reaction, he’s a noob and therefore had the climb soed up.
What do you mean lucky? He was using twin ropes and had lots of dangly shit off his harness. Also, he had a technically breathable upper layer. He was ready for anything.
One does not simply climb as a 2nd without anchor
fuck everyone for watching this
were you the climber?
He was roped up. Or else they wouldnt be laughing. Duh. He woulda just fallen to the last anchor point.
depending on how far he was above his last piece of gear he could have ripped it out of the ice because of the condition of the ice. Laughing is important in the climbing world. It is a way to release some of the tension out of a scary situation.
spikes and rock dont mix.
Sure they do. I’ve climbed this hunk of ice, and there is about one hundred feet of decent ice below him, which he sewed up with gear, so he would have fallen about twenty to thirty feet, probably broken his ankles in the process. This guy was leading the climb, with his belayer down at the bottom. The other two in the video, have already climbed the route, and are waiting to repel off the anchors that they are clipped to. They smartly climbed earlier.
They were a guide and a client, thus the holier than thou attitude. I’m sure the pucked factor was high.
Ice climbing in July. huh?