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Mountain climbers rappel down Mount Washington to clean up the hillside

Shane Dunlap
By Shane Dunlap
1 Min Read • April 29, 2023 | 3 years Ago
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Matt Tolbert, of Pittsburgh, a member of the Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, uses rappelling equipment to descend from the top of the Mount Washington overlook to work on cleaning up litter from Pittsburgh’s famous mountainside during the annual volunteer effort on Saturday, April 29, 2023 along Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington.
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Chris Ruch, a member of the Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group, prepares his burlap sack to collect trash with as he descends the slopes of Mount Washington on Saturday, April 29, 2023 along Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington.
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Kathryn Hunninen, senior manager of special initiatives with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, hauls away a tire that climbers collected from the slopes of Mount Washington during the annual cleanup efforts by mountain climbers on Saturday, April 29, 2023 along Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington.
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Mountain climber Joseph Ball, of Pittsburgh, descends the steeper slopes of Mount Washington with mountain climbing equipment on Saturday, April 29, 2023 along Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington. Ball was with the Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group.
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Mountain climber Ivan Lopez, launches climbing rope over the side of Mount Washington as he and other climbers from Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group prepare to descend the slopes to clean up trash on Saturday, April 29, 2023 on Mount Washington.
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Volunteers descend the slopes of Mount Washington during an annual litter cleanup effort on Saturday, April 29, 2023 along Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington.
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Mountain climber Rob Thibadeau, with Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group, descends the slopes of Mount Washington, on Saturday, April 29, 2023.
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Matt Tolbert, of Pittsburgh, a member of the Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, uses rappelling equipment to descend from the top of the Mount Washington overlook to work on cleaning up litter from Pittsburgh’s famous mountainside during the annual volunteer effort on Saturday, April 29, 2023 along Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington.

Experienced mountain climbers and other volunteers cleaned up litter Saturday from the slopes of Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington. They rappelled down the cliff from along Grandview Avenue.

The Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group participated in the cleanup efforts, which have been conducted by the groups for more than 25 years.

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Shane Dunlap is a TribLive photographer covering Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. He grew up in the Ohio Valley near Pittsburgh and has worked for newspapers as far away as Fayetteville, N.C., where he covered the U.S. Army at Fort Liberty. He can be reached at sdunlap@triblive.com.

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