Janette Heung Of Boulder Killed In Fall From Wyoming Peak

From CBS Denver:

By Logan Smith

September 15, 2020

(CBS4) – A 35-year-old Boulder woman passed away following a climbing accident last week in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. Janette Heung fell approximately 400 feet while descending Pingora Peak on Sept. 5.

A colleague of Heung stated online that a “melon-sized” rock struck and dislodged the woman’s climbing rope anchor.

“Janette was rappeling the South Buttress rappels of Pingora after climbing the East face with me, her climbing partner,” Josh Digrugilliers of Pennsylvania wrote in a MountainProject.com discussion last week. There were two other climbers in their group.

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