"a person that I had just met at the gym was lead belaying me on a warm-up. He yelled up to me and informed me that the Grigri was rigged incorrectly."

By Daniel Shaw Published June 3 2026 Daniel Shaw, Alaska The wind had been a steady whisper across the glacier when Daniel Shaw and his partner Dave Staley picked their way across the East Fork Kahiltna Glacier, roped and clipped with the proper glacier-travel gear. They were on their way to begin the West Rib route of Denali and in one of the most dangerous valleys in the National Park. Crossing a smooth white expanse, they moved along an unseen crevasse while paying atten