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Ethics and Arrogance 8-Aug-2008 At 3:12:00 PM Paul

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While we are winging about ethics, just a little gym rant. When you are leading in the gym and there is someone on a top rope, ask them if they have finished before you start climbing. Last week at hard rock I was doing laps of a climb attempting to work on some endurance. I was shocked to find that in the time between reaching the top and being lowered to the ground someone had started leading it underneath me. Don't just assume because someone has reached the top they have finished, their partner may want to climb. Firstly if they had falen they may have landed on top of me and injured me, secondly it is not that hard to ask if someone has finished on a climb, I seem to be able to manage to do it without any difficulty when I am leading.