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From Canada 🇨🇦
Date of death 23rd Apr 2026
Gender Male
Climbing
Hardest Sport (Worked) 8c
Hardest Trad (Worked) E9
Notable Partnerships
Marc-André Leclerc
Matt Segal

Will Stanhope was a Canadian trad climber, soloist and big wall climber.

He made early repeats of hard testpieces such as Cobra Crack (E9) in 2009. In 2015, after 4 years of work, he established Tom Egan Memorial Route (8c) with Matt Segal the Bugaboos.

Will tragically died in 2026. While climbing Rutabaga in Squamish he took a bad fall and suffered a serious head injury. [2]

References

[1] Soloing in Joshua Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsU5PjguPgw

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/DXha2R7lKqo/

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45 contributions since 24th January 2021.

Quick Info

From Canada 🇨🇦
Date of death 23rd Apr 2026
Gender Male
Climbing
Hardest Sport (Worked) 8c
Hardest Trad (Worked) E9
Notable Partnerships
Marc-André Leclerc
Matt Segal

Will Stanhope was a Canadian trad climber, soloist and big wall climber.

He made early repeats of hard testpieces such as Cobra Crack (E9) in 2009. In 2015, after 4 years of work, he established Tom Egan Memorial Route (8c) with Matt Segal the Bugaboos.

Will tragically died in 2026. While climbing Rutabaga in Squamish he took a bad fall and suffered a serious head injury. [2]

References

[1] Soloing in Joshua Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsU5PjguPgw

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/DXha2R7lKqo/

Contributors
45 contributions since 24th January 2021.

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