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A GoFundMe account for mountain guide Rob Coppolillo’s family seeks to raise $25,000 USD. He fell into a crevasse while skiing on a remote glacier in Banff National Park last week.

A GoFundMe account for mountain guide Rob Coppolillo’s family seeks to raise $25,000 USD. He fell into a crevasse while skiing on a remote glacier in Banff National Park last week.

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Alpinist.com Also in This Style Edelrid Starling Protect Pro Dry 8.2mm Rope: Handles well, highly cut resistant Rob Coppolillo MSRP: $209.95 (for 60m) We all dread "getting the chop." We climbers generally utter the phrase to imply getting killed during the practice of our meaningless pastime of scaling rocks, mountains and frozen waterfalls. In the climbing world, the phrase channels a spooky double-entendre, pulling in the idea of having our ropes cut because of some terrible accident. adver...