Anna from Mountain.ru emailed this through to me and it really is a heart breaking story. From the mountain.ru website: A dreadful accident happened about a week ago in Turkey with Zalia, a daughter of Salavat Rakhmetov, famous boulderingist, he won World Championship 2005 in Munich at the age of 38. Sure, you've heard about him. Salavat lead the pitch, his wife belayed, when huge block of rock fell down directly to their 5 y.o. daughter, she's still unconsciousness, in intensive care in a Turkish hospital, she has pulled through four surgeries (amputation of a hand, sewed big toe on a leg, stuck in the spokes of a broken arm and a leg). But she needs one more heavy operation - damaged crashed skull fragments fell into the brain. I hope they raise the money they need to save her. I know this has been covered in another thread, but with our news going a bit out of time today due to our new page going live, I thought I would bump this thread. More info here: http://mountain.ru/article/article_display1.php?article_id=4496 Jack

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