Rea Wehner said she felt anxious when she first heard of a fatal climbing fall at Red Rock. Hours later, Wehner heard from a mutual friend that the victim’s identity was that of her longtime friend.

Eighteen-year-old Yutong “Faye” Zhang, a University of Georgia freshman, fell while rock climbing in Cherokee Rock Village on Saturday Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

Towards the end of 2014 the Slovak climbers Jozef Kristoffy and Martin Krasnansky spent a month climbing in Jordan with the aim of establishing a new difficult route in the Wadi Rum area. After ...