IIIII 2 Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Mountain climber dies in freak one-meter fall NAGANO -- A 50-year-old mountain climber died in a freak accident after she fell one meter on a frozen waterfall and strangled herself on tape attached to spikes driven into the ice face, police said. Fellow climbers on the 2,805-meter-high Mount Amida in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, alerted police at about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Officers arrived at the scene by helicopter to find Mikiko Kawaguchi, a company employee from Chiba Prefecture, dead. Police said that Kawaguchi was climbing the 15-meter-tall frozen waterfall with three partners when she apparently lost balance and fell. Kawaguchi had attached tape to her pitons, the steel spikes hammered into the ice face, in order to allow ropes to pass through them more smoothly, police said. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Yikes, how awful. Link to post Share on other sites
The Colin 0 Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Ouch. Link to post Share on other sites
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