Awww, hell, Toby

[rydra_wong]

Climber and BASE jumper Toby Benham (who some may know of for his legendary exploits on grit in the 2000s, and who has in the last few years been doing BASE jumping and stunt work as "Lucky Chance") has been in a horrific BASE jumping accident in the French Alps.

He's currently in a medically-induced coma with very bad head injuries. His folks have put up a Facebook page to update people about his progress.

I'm linking here because they're also fundraising to cover what will be enormous medical bills, however things go.

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[wpadmirer]

I've passed this along to my climbing gym's page. Such a sad thing.

[rydra_wong]

There's a line somewhere in a documentary (I think probably Annapurna South Face) where, after one of the climbers has died, Don Whillans says words to the effect of: you do these things knowing the risk, knowing the potential price, but still, whenever someone pays it, it feels like the price is too high.

Here's hoping Toby Benham gets to come back the way Paul Pritchard has.