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Woman falls to death at indoor climbing gym in Colorado
June 16, 2021
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) Police say a woman fell about 40 feet (12 meters) to her death at an indoor climbing gym in northern Colorado.
Fort Collins police spokesman Brandon Barnes tells The Coloradoan the woman fell at Ascent Studio Climbing & Fitness on Saturday, and it appears she became unattached from the auto-belay system. Investigators did not find any faulty equipment.
The Larimer County coroner s office has not released the climber s name.
The climbing gym in Fort Collins released a statement Tuesday calling the fall a “tragic event” and expressing sympathy for the climber s friends and family. It also said the auto-belay systems that keep climbers from falling will not be used at least until a full investigation is completed.
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Emily Harrington speaks at a Forever Buffs event on Jan. 28, 2021. (Courtesy Forever Buffs)
On Jan. 28, professional climber Emily Harrington joined a Forever Buffs Spotlight zoom event to talk about her historical single day free climb of El Capitan via Golden Gate at Yosemite National Park in 2020. Over the hour-long zoom call, the University of Colorado Boulder graduate outlined her journey from a youth climber to joining the North Face Global Athlete Team and accomplishing several climbing feats.
Harrington became the first woman to free climb the 41-pitch route in a day and is just the fourth climber ever to climb El Capitan in a day. In 1993, Lynn Hill became the first woman to free climb the Nose in under 24 hours while Steph Davis and Mayan Smith-Gobat have each climbed the Freerider route in a day.
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