ROCK CLIMBING NEWS ITEM

Wichita Mountain Climber Fell in Northern Mexico

TUESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2006

Super strong climber who was part of the Wichita Mountains Climbers Coalition which worked with the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to keep climbing sites open fell about 100 meters while climbing near Monterrey, Mexico.

Forty-three years old, James Ray "Jimmy" Forester of Richardson went solo climbing in El Potrero Chico Canyon in northern Mexico and died from head injuries. Forester work in keeping sites open in Wichita Mountains located in Southern Oklahoma and sites across Texas.

Forester's main climbing partner said that "Jimmy is probably one of the biggest losses to the North Texas and Oklahoma climbing communities, he had a love for climbing and was an activist for the climbing community". El Potrero Chico is a popular climbing area and about a ten hour drive from the Metroplex. It has relatively easy routes and extremely difficult ones.

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