A 25-year-old Brooklyn woman fell to her death while rock climbing near New Paltz, police said Monday.
Lauren Sobel was leading two other climbers at the Mohonk Mountain Preserve around 3:30 p.m. Sunday when she lost her grip while trying to set protective gear about 70 feet up the rock face, according to New York State Police.
Sobel fell 50 feet and died at the scene, cops said.
Her dad, David Sobel, told The Post of the accident, “She was the lead, which means she’s on top.”
“She was three feet above her hook and she was going to put another one in and that’s when she fell and apparently there were three different safety measures taken and all three failed,” David explained, adding that Lauren was certified and trained to lead this type of climb.
She was on vacation climbing with two friends at the time, the dad said.
Lauren, a municipal bond analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, “donated her time to helping military veterans who had amputated limbs learn to rock climb and she did that before she even knew how to rock climb because she believed in the cause,” David said while choking back tears.
“And from that, her interest developed and she became an avid rock climber,” he said.
David said Lauren climbed frequently whenever she had free time.
“She had a job but she would try to find the opportunity to rock climb when she could,” he said.
Lauren wasn’t married or in a relationship, David said. She had an older sister and loved her sister’s 5-year-old son “a whole lot,” David said.
David said Lauren was “extremely energetic. She was always doing something.”
“She was fluent in multiple languages. Pretty much all self-taught. She just had an aptitude for it,” David said.
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