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QUT and affiliates sued for $8m Kangaroo Point 5-Jun-2017 At 2:46:29 AM rightarmbad

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Well seeing as the belayer may have come from an area where it is normal to abseil and clean you are both idiots for not discussing it beforehand.
The belayer and climber are both pretty stupid to assume an action/procedure will take place when at such a critical time.
You have no idea of the history, you need to have safeguards, look after yourself.

I climbed with two young people who already knew each other and the young guy got to the anchors, re-thread and dropped onto the rope just a moment after I had noticed that the young girl had taken her hand off the brake hand while he was re-threading, I grabbed the rope and just stated to say something as he dropped onto the rope.

He did what he sometimes did and she did what she always did.
Where she climbs, China, there is no expectation to belay whilst the climber is re-threading, only after the climber asks to take up the slack and ask for tension.
Different cultures, different areas, different expectations, languages and calls.
We all sat down and had a discussion before anymore climbing.

Jumping off onto the rope after re-threading is just as dangerous as letting go of the brake strand.