SENECA ROCKS, W.Va. — A man was killed in a fatal rock-climbing accident in Pendleton County.
Mike Robinson, 76, was climbing the east face of Seneca Rocks Saturday afternoon when he fell to his death, per Pendleton County 911’s Facebook. Emergency crews responded to the scene at around 2:25 p.m.
Robinson was a member of the Washington Canoe Club based in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
The WCC remembered Robinson in a Facebook post Sunday.
“It’s with a heavy heart that I share the news of the untimely death of our great friend Mike Robinson. Mike was a most excellent friend of WCC and a regular racer at our annual Havens 10K,” the WCC post said. “He would race C-2 either with his wife Linda or his daughter or most recently his adult granddaughter.”
The club said there will be a Celebration of Life ceremony this fall.
“In the meantime, be like Mike,” the club’s post concluded. “Keep getting out there and do the things that bring you joy.”