Does anyone know anything about this?
Apparently someone died while hiking at Yamnuska on Sunday.
Kananaskis Public Safety on Facebook doesn't say anything - maybe it was a death while hiking, rather than from a mountain accident?

It sure seems like a lot is happening there lately - just all the people who might have been hiking elsewhere concentrated into the one hike and bringing their accidents with them?

MCR says

I saw that post, but none of the recent incidents have involved rockfall. Two people gone tumbling, one woman dead of a fall nearby (Goat), and now this one, just mentions 'while hiking'.

Rocks fall on trails, and trails cross areas of loose rock, don't they?

(putting aside the question of how Rockies rock can be called anything but loose)

They certainly can. But in the case of this specific mountain, rockfall danger exists only on the descent from the scramble loop.

If you merely do the hiking trail, you are on the eastern hill, and way out of the way of any rockfall unless you hunt down a small outcropping and stick your head underneath it.

It just happens that the incidents we've had reports on have all not been rockfall-related, and while I don't know about this one, it seems unlikely - I think that if it were rockfall, we'd surely have a report.

The lack of any mention of incident makes me wonder if he just had a heart attack while out hiking or something, such that it wasn't of not to the safety guys to mention it.

Maybe its from all the extra loose shit that all the rains brought down. The accident (not fatality) on Ha Ling was an off route climber on NE face. That happens every few years.

The latest says she died of a 120m fall off the face. No info weather she was climbing or scrambling or just hiking up the easy side.

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/body-of-mi...uska-1.1351883

Okay, this is pure hearsay, but I heard it was an aneurysm.

I believe the person who died on Yamnuska on July 14th was 59 year old Alan Richards. Not sure of the circumstances.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cal...33#fbLoggedOut

RIP

Allan A
http://www.truedino.com

Yeah, that is the same obit as Rachel linked to, in the OP.

I heard it was a medical problem, rather than a fall or rock fall. But like I said it is just a rumour. I have no supporting evidence.

That was a different person, and she was on Goat, near Yamnuska. The press has been terrible.


Yes, I had the Obit, which mentions who and the death on Yam. That's why I was trying to figure out the deal. I too was thinking that perhaps it was something random like a heart attack, or the aneurysm you heard, rather than a hiking accident, and that was why there was no publication of a rescue.
But I was hoping someone might have heard what happened.