According to a release from Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), on the morning of Thursday, July 30, park rangers received an emergency call from a group of climbers on Broadway Ledge, near Fields Chimney, on the east face of Longs Peak, who witnessed an unroped climber in another climbing group fall while traversing Broadway.
Park rangers responded and reached the 26-year-old male from Golden, Colorado, at the base of the Chimney. The man died from injuries sustained in an approximate 600 to 800 foot fall.
The victim’s body was flown by Northern Colorado Interagency Helitak to a helispot in the Upper Beaver Meadows area of the park at 3:45 p.m. His body was then transferred to the Boulder County Coroner.
The deceased has been identified as Dillon Blanksma, an avid climber and climbing instructor at Earth Treks Golden, in Golden, Colo.
Friends have organized a memorial for Blanksma at Earth Treks Golden, where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he had been a climbing instructor for over four years.
“If you haven’t heard, the climbing community has lost one of the most stoked and happy members it has ever known; Dillon lost his life doing what he loves, climbing, and since we all know how stoked and happy Dillon always was, we will be having a celebration of life for him at Earth Treks Golden,” the Dillion Blanksma Memorial Facebook post reads. “Please come and climb, laugh, share memories and enjoy the company of all the amazing people he had an impact on.”
“There were approximately 16 climbers on The Diamond (when the accident happened),” said Tony Nichols in a thread about the accident on MountainProject.com.
Austin Runyon, a local Front-Range climber and friend of Blanksma, told Rock and Ice Magazine, “What I will always carry with me about Dillon isn’t just his never-ending love of climbing. It was his genuinely kind personality and the ability to make everyone feel cared about.”
According to the climbing magazine, Broadway Ledge, at roughly 13,000 feet, is the traditional starting point for most of the East Face’s classic routes. While there are routes on the lower East Face of Long’s that can be used to reach Broadway, most climbers opt for the loose North Chimney—a 500-foot mostly fourth- and low-fifth- class cleft that splits the right side of the lower East Face.
Check out this National Park Service video about Longs Peak safety at https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=29C141CC-1DD8-B71B-0B812E637016E2A3.
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