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Pilot Error Bolt 17-Nov-2015 At 5:58:09 PM martym

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On 16/11/2015 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 15/11/2015 martym wrote:
>>2. Belayer paid out appropriate slack,
>
>What are you talking about? The dude broke his thumb on the ground at
>the bottom of his swing. 70cm more slack and his head would have hit the
>same rock......way too close!
70c more? That's a lot of extra slack.
It looks like the guy climbing had his leg wrapped in the rope. He spends a long time faffing at the edge and it looks like he is about to stand up on the ledge. He is really lucky his belayer was vigilant enough to not pay out another handful.

>
>>The bolt may have given him a false boost of confidence.
>
>What are you talking about? It isn't the sixties anymore, people fall
>off things now!
The insinuation was that he was happy there was a bolt that saved him from a grounder, I assume? I guess he would have been happier still if there was another bolt at the lip, perhaps if it was grid bolted?