(Generated from Solid Rock Climbers for Christ Newsletter)
Karen Feher of Midlothian, VA died in a fall from the anchors on a climb in New River Gorge two weekends ago. It was brought to our attention when Eric Hörst posted this on Facebook last week, “Yesterday I heard about the climbing fatality at the New…but I didn’t want to comment at the time. But now that I’ve seen this video (www.wtvr.com/news/), I must pass it on. So sad, yet Jay (the husband’s) faith is so amazing and inspiring.”

Our heart and prayers are with Jay and her two kids. Please join in praying for them. Also, we are wondering if any Solid Rockers personally know the family? We would like to deliver some resources to the family.

Rather than go into a large discourse in the aspects of safety and checking your gear, this video UKC Videos, shows (very well) the dangers of using non-sewn or open slings.

Anyone who climbs and stays with it, will, eventually, have something go wrong; often, things that can go wrong, will go wrong and will do so (mostly) due to human error. Even gear failure can almost always be traced back to a lack of maintenance on the part of the user. Please be careful and be a student of the game. Love life and do it again tomorrow.

If you want to read what happened and learn from it you can visit: http://www.petzl.com/us/node/9886.