ElCap Report Special Rescue Edition 10/3/14
By Tom Evans
Yo.. Well, today was to have been a nice climbing day, with a special event that I will have to cover later. I was in the Café doing some images and finishing breakfast when Bud Miller, from YOSAR, told me that there was to be rescue off the Nose at Camp 4 ledge. I quickly packed up my computer and headed to the ElCap Meadow to shoot the proceedings. No rescue vehicles had arrived yet, so I set up and looked through the camera to see what the problem was. What I saw was not good…not good at all. A team that I had been following for a couple of days had had an accident. Simon, a doctor from Wales, had fallen on the pitch above Camp 4 and was lying, seriously injured, on a ledge. His wife, Marian, was tending to his injuries and on the cell phone to the rescue people.