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insure 4 less grade < 28 policy 19-Apr-2012 At 12:18:42 PM wilbur

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Insure4less's words:

Hi
Thanks for completing the climbing application however, our plans cover up to Grade 28 Australian. If you wish to climb above that grade please provide details of your previous climbs/locations etc at those grades and we’ll refer to the Underwriter.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards
The insure4less Team

My reply:

Thanks for your response.

I have been climbing for 15 years: in Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Slovenia.
I regularly warm up (ie start my day's climbing) at Diamond Falls Australia by climbing Hairline (28). Deeming routes above Grade 28 as being more risky than those below demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of sport climbing. I am happy to provide you with a list of routes I have climbed above this number but I'm curious as to what your Underwriter proposes to do with that list.

As a representative sample:
Grade 32: Attack Mode (Nowra, Australia), Mr Line (Diamond Falls, Australia)
Grade 31: Lord of the Rings (Arapiles, Australia), Dungeon Master (Nowra, Australia)
Grade 30: Face de Rat (Ceuse, France), Temptation (Blue Mountains, Australia)
Grade 29: Slimline (Frankenjura, Germany), Tsunami (Blue Mountains, Australia), Serpentine (Grampians, Australia), A'crabita (Rodellar, Spain)

I look forward to hearing what risk assessment your Underwriter makes of this.

Thanks in advance.