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Biggest/Nastiest whipper with no sad ending 24-Sep-2010 At 10:21:34 AM bl@ke

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Yeah pretty gnarley. I met you while hanging around at the pines with Neils and Matt I think. Oh and here is another one. I didnt see it but my mates did. Around the time Neils was at Ben Lomond I was at Frecynet having a blast at some sea cliffs. One day we tried to hitch to the Hazards unsuccesfully so we ended up walking 9ks or something like that. We got to the base of our climb and it started raining (as it did everyday when we were there) so we walked 9ks back to camp in the rain. The next day my Tasmanian climber pals wanted to go back. I was like "bugger that" so i stayed at camp while they got a lift with a nice Alaskan climber. There was also a guy from perth and his girlfriend that were going to be on the same route. Japhlion I think. So there were three groups on 2 climbs.
Mr Perth guy was ahead leading some nice orangy granite when he fell off the crack he was climbing, quite a way too and landed on the belay ledge mashing his ankle. The two people behind them (Sam and Alaskin guy) climb the rest of the climb and meet the other 2 guys (Rob and Jules) at the top and fix there two ropes so Mr Perth can prussic of the last 100 or so metres of the climb! All while I was waiting at camp for them to return so I could have tea! The next day Mr Perth and His Girlfriend went into town for an x ray of his ankle.