Stories of the rock fall on the Squamish Chief last weekend continue to hit the news. This article by Vancouver Courier caught our eye, featuring Vancouver climber Tomas Sedlak, Jan Fultner and Ladislav Placek.
Tomáš Sedlák was metres away, hanging on a rock face when the equivalent of 5,000 pickup trucks full of granite came crashing down the north face of the Stawamus Chief on Sunday, April 19.
“It was like a big huge bomb exploded or something,” said Sedlák, a Vancouver climber who was with two friends just 10 metres from the slab of granite that broke loose and crashed to the ground.
“It was a whole big rock and it also got some trees, so it was all falling to us,” he said.
Sedlák had started the 13-part route on the actual plate that fell. He was on the third part of the route when the slide happened.
“On the first route, we already heard some rocks falling,” he said. Because he hadn’t climbed at that spot before, he assumed it was a normal event and was nothing to worry about.
“We got to the third route and big rocks started falling,” he said.
Read the rest of the article here.
