A GoFundMe has been set up by my friend's family after her climbing accident in Durango. Read below and follow the link if you're interested in helping a rad lady out with some medical bills. Our local community has raised nearly $10,000 in a single day.
Copied from her page:
"On July 5th , Ella Hall was rock climbing with her friends near Durango, CO; something she is very skilled at. She was on lead with her friend Will belaying. As she neared the top of the route, Ella fell, however, due to a combination of poor rock quality and gear failing, her fall became unarrestable, sending her 60 feet down to rocks and hard pack. A fall of this magnitude has a less than 50% survival rate. Will, a Wilderness EMT, was 5 ft from her when she landed. He quickly went to work, assessing her injuries and administering care with friends and a bystander. At this time, another friend, Luke, ran up the trail to get cell service and called Search & Rescue, who were able to arrive on scene roughly 15 minutes later. Ella was then rapidly evacuated to a helicopter, where she was flown to a Level 2 Trauma Center in Grand Junction.
While we are incredibly thankful Ella does not have any brain or spinal trauma, her injuries are still extensive: she suffered bilateral pneumothoraces (both of her lungs collapsed on scene), a broken right femur, multiple fractures to her pelvis (any of these injuries individually can take a health person's life), a compression fracture to her L2 vertebrae, as well as multiple fractures to her feet, heels, ankles, jaw, and face (resulting in the loss of 12 teeth), including bilateral temporal fractures and a labyrinthine concussion. Finally, she also suffered various lacerations including a large one under her chin (luckily missing any major arteries) as well as a large morel-lavallee lesion (closed degloving injury) to her upper right hamstring area. While all of these injuries are fixable, it will be a long and painful road to recovery, before Ella will be able to get back to doing what she loves."
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jwek6a-ella039s-recovery?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_dn_postdonate_r&fbclid=IwAR1d3Iq2oL_wDK1kC3BtZ9PkKOQfpnMBuEeGKWfVQ3N4wBTvB5vbdHjMXzA
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