Preliminary report on the St Savvas (Kalymnos) anchor, which failed with lethal consequences on 27th March 2026

Suprise: it's not sulphide stress cracking mediated by sulphate reducing bacteria!

Petzl Gougon 10 mm from 2000-2005 should be treated as high risk until we have better data. It might be a bad batch. They might have been used in other crags.

https://cragchemistry.com/2026/06/08/kalymnos-catastrophic-anchor-failure/

Images are from the Rebolt Kalymnos Facebook post.

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The first analysis of the fatal triple bolt breakage in #Kalymnos earlier this year: https://cragchemistry.com/2026/06/08/kalymnos-catastrophic-anchor-failure/

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Radka Čihulková #CR dala Meltemi-Poets 8a #Poets #Kalymnos

https://climbnews.pohroma.de/2026/05/08/36587/

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Tomáš Hovorka #CR dal Zellweger 8a #Kalymnos

https://climbnews.pohroma.de/2026/05/01/36518/

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The bolts snapped... || Investigating the Kalymnos Climbing Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_Tsqjcojo

Interessantes Interview mit #ReboltKalymnos zu dem tragischen Unfall.
Und eine Möglichkeit für alle Kletterer, die Leute vor Ort bei ihrer tollen Arbeit zu unterstützen:

https://reboltkalymnos.org/ -> donate!

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Tragédie na ostrově #Kalymnos

https://climbnews.pohroma.de/2026/03/31/36184/

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