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Accident at Mt Buffalo 12-Jul-2015 At 8:06:04 PM rolsen1

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On 12/07/2015 kieranl wrote:
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>In all three cases human factors contributed heavily to the accidents,
>these being variously poor communication, distraction and impatience. We're
>all guilty of these at different times and I know that it's only luck that
>has saved me from mistakes due to these over the years.

Totally agree.... I have been guilty of all three of these, but I don't think I (or anyone) should ever put other's lives in danger because of our impatience. Sure, I've I called safe (often) when I wanted to hurry up things with a slow partner, and I knew I was actually but not technically safe, but I've never taken anyone off belay because of impatience. Poor communication and distraction do happen... we're human, but impatience (not saying this happened here) seems very different and inexcusable from the other two reasons.