(March 16, 2015 at 6:46 pm)whateverist Wrote: I'm sure the number that die in car accidents coming or leaving Yosemite is also a much bigger number. But when you read about the climbing deaths you don't get a lot of reassurance that it is only the incompetent that perish.
I actually knew someone who died in Yosemite climbing (from rock fall). I would never say that climbing is a safe sport. I would only say that it can be a totally safe sport. On that note I'm off to scrounge up a climbing partner and do some very safe sport climbing here in the Blue Mountains of Australia.