[pct-l] Japanese hiker fell off Half Dome cable to his death

[Weilin Pan]

Here are links to San Francisoc Chronicle articles with in-depth story and
discussions.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/19/BAGHNQHLEV1.DTL
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sgreen/detail?blogid=40&entry_id=17696

I am unfortunately one of the witnesses of this tragedy. It totally changed
my perspective of climbing Half Dome, which I've done every year for the
past 3 years. I don't think I will not go back there any more.


On 6/20/07, Denis Stanton <denisstanton at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for posting this link.  My son Craig (SunWalker) was on the Half
> Dome cables about 30 minutes before this.  They were so crowded and slow
> that he swung up the outside.  He probably passed this man.  Craig had come
> off the PCT briefly to link up with me and was running the 32 miles from
> Tuolumne to Yosemite Valley via Cloud's Rest and Half Dome.  When we emerged
> at Happy Isles the rangers were collecting all photos around the time of the
> sad event.  I hope it's not too morbid, but I wanted to hear how and where
> it happened.  Those cables were so scary to me the first time.
>
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> Denis Stanton                             Auckland, New Zealand
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> On Monday, June 18, 2007, at 05:30PM, "Weilin Pan" <panweilin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >Japanese hiker fell off Half Dome cable to his
> >death<
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