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Ground Fall Last night Hardrock CBD 2-Mar-2014 At 5:40:36 PM MalcolmX

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On 2/03/2014 rightarmbad wrote:
>I just don't get why anybody would want to lead climb in a gym.

I usually always only lead in a gym (as all people do in my home gym in germany). If you are justed to leading outdoors, why should not you also lead indoors. It is not the same as outdoors but more similar and you can practice your lead skills in a safe environment. And on really overhanging routes (not there are any at CBD), it is much safer to lead anyway.

About the accident, i don't saw the beginning of it i just saw the last meters of the fall, but for me it seemed like the belayer just let the rope run through his ATC guide. He said something, that he slipped of the rope. In my opinion it had nothing to do with the fact that the gym was crowded, it was just a mistake of a probably inexperienced belayer who never catched a lead.