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Biggest/Nastiest whipper with no sad ending |
24-Sep-2010 At 9:05:20 AM |
tastrad
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I witnesed Neils take his 50m whipper at Africa on Ben Lomond. I was repeating a neighbouring route while Neils and Crazy John were attempting a new route ground up and onsight on a 200m face. I was above and to the right of Neils as he was on the second pitch on grade 22/23 territory about 25m above the belay. A hold broke and he ripped all the gear from the pitch (8 pieces) except the first wire above the belay. As he was cartwheeling head first past the belay I thought he was going to deck out from 65m and die. He pulled up 15m off the ground. Just after the first wire, the rope caught behind a flake and stripped a 2m section of the sheath with all the core exposed. My feeling is that the flake held him, not the wire, otherwise that might have ripped like all his other pieces, and he would have gone factor 2 onto John's marginal belay. If that had happened they'd both be dead. |
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