'Spider-Man of Yemen' dies after falling into volcanic crater

Al-Qaqa Ibn Antar, a thirty-year-old Yemeni climber who had made his name ascending sheer rock faces without ropes or harness, fell to his death inside the Hardah Dam volcanic crater in June 2026 — a place of geological wonder that offered no forgiveness for a single lapse of grip. His story belongs to a long human tradition of testing limits at the edge of the possible, where the audience grows largest precisely because the margin for error has been reduced to nothing. Yemen's Civil Defence Authority recovered his body from thirty meters below the crater's sulfur lake in a rescue operation so