{"id":707,"date":"2006-10-25T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=707"},"modified":"2006-10-25T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T11:51:10","slug":"famed-climber-dies-in-fall-at-yosemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/25\/famed-climber-dies-in-fall-at-yosemite\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed climber dies in fall at Yosemite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/breaking_news\/15839884.htm\">Todd Skinner fell 500 feet  from the Leaning Tower. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTodd Skinner was rappelling Monday after he and a partner worked on pioneering a new route near Bridalveil Fall, said Adrienne Freeman, a park spokeswoman.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIt was not immediately clear why Skinner, who claimed on his Web site to have set climbing records in 26 countries, fell.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t know whether it was a climbing harness failure or a problem with his equipment or an error,&#8221; said Steve Bechtel, Skinner&#8217;s former climbing partner and friend. &#8220;He&#8217;s a larger-than-life climbing hero and it&#8217;s a great loss to the entire community of climbers across the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on Skinner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supertopo.com\/climbing\/thread.html?topic_id=270833&#038;tn=0&#038;mr=0\">at this discussion board for climbers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I saw this on the New York Times home page last night and Carolyn Hoffman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundtoprumings.blogspot.com\/\">RoundTop Ruminations<\/a> sent me the link, and I saw it wasn&#8217;t at GoBlog yet, so that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s on the ol&#8217; hiking blog this morning.<br \/>\n<P>EDIT: I read more of the comments about Skinner at supertopo.com and it struck me how one post after another talked about how he was upbeat, gung-ho, and  never had a bad word for anybody. All-around good guy, in other words. If the measure of a life is the depth of regret at your passing, then Skinner had an especially good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Skinner fell 500 feet from the Leaning Tower. Todd Skinner was rappelling Monday after he and a partner worked on pioneering a new route near Bridalveil Fall, said Adrienne Freeman, a park spokeswoman. It was not immediately clear why&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/10\/25\/famed-climber-dies-in-fall-at-yosemite\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}