{"id":4428,"date":"2025-12-10T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:37:45","slug":"every-rock-climbers-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/every-rock-climbers-worst-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Every rock climber&#8217;s worst nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gazette of 6 March 1991 reports that on Sunday 4 March 1991, two men died while abseiling at Mt York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The accident is said to have occurred when one man, who was descending, pulled the other man over the edge of the cliff after a supporting tie had become free. One of the dead men was inexperienced in abseiling while the other was instructing. A third member of the party who witnessed the accident was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The police helicopter was called in to winch the bodies to a waiting car and they were then taken by road to Katoomba Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one man, who was descending, pulled the other man over the edge of the cliff after a supporting tie had become free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}