General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
Biggest/Nastiest whipper with no sad ending	24-Sep-2010 At 1:15:07 PM	Terrapin18
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On 24/09/2010 gordoste wrote: >IIRC there's a bolt just below the crux (the last bolt) and it's about >3m below the anchor. If he was clipping with his safety then he wouldn't >have taken up an armful of slack so wondering why he fell so far? Just >want to understand what happened - as you can see from my story above I >made a mistake and had a near miss myself! Think it was a few factors. I was belaying and thought he was going for the clip so I had a bit of slack out...but nothing crazy...certainly not on the ground or anything. Better communication on both our parts would have helped there. I think it was a relatively new rope as well so had a lot of stretch.

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