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Accident at Mt Buffalo 28-Apr-2015 At 5:54:39 PM kieranl

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Good to hear that he will recover well.

It would be good if the people involved can detal the circumstances leading to the accident at some time.

By my reckoning there have now been 4 incidents involving abseiling in Vic in the last 6 months, 3 of them in the last six weeks!

While there's no direct relationship, it suggests that maybe we're just a bit too blase about abseiling.

There's a lot of discussion about whether to use backup prusiks (and where they're positioned) but not a lot about local examples. There may be some chat going on in the background but I'm not aware of open discussion (may just be me of course).

Anyway, if they feel able a brief description of what happened would be good (names not required).