Overview
- Ferrarone slipped from a ledge at Castle Rock while climbing and fell roughly 20 feet, prompting on-scene CPR and a helicopter hoist by the San Bernardino County sheriff’s aviation unit that evacuated him to Loma Linda University Medical Center.
- He was placed on life support after the July 12 crash and was pronounced dead at the hospital on July 15, according to the sheriff’s department and family fundraising posts.
- His wife, Nina Kim, who was with him when he fell, performed CPR at the scene and was identified in multiple reports as about eight weeks pregnant at the time of the accident.
- Friends set up a GoFundMe to cover Ferrarone’s medical bills, rent and baby supplies, and fundraisers raised tens of thousands within days with reported totals varying across outlets.
- Ferrarone was a pro-level climber and a software engineer with ties to San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and San Diego; funeral and memorial plans are being organized in San Diego and Peachtree, Georgia and the family now faces the practical and financial realities of raising their child without him.