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Tribute Wall accident 11/09/2018 3-Oct-2018 At 4:46:46 PM ajfclark
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On 2-Oct-2018 Stugang wrote:
>OK I was assuming it was a tight rope belay accident rather than a bounce on ledge accident.
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>Seriously how is it possible to pump out freak and fall at a waist high clip on any of the routes you mentioned? So with no knowledge of the route I assumed it was at least slightly overhanging.

The route is pretty well vertical. It starts from a ledge above and right of a left facing corner and heads up and left, so I assumed that the climber had swung into that corner, especially given where he was located, down left of the start of the route, on the lower level.

From the reply above, it does indeed sound like a tight belay though - unless when the belayer says "2m from the ground" they mean 2m from the lower level, in which case they were below the belay and the climber swung into that left facing corner.

As for why, imagine you haven't been climbing that long, maybe a year or so, and it's late in the day. You decide to climb one last route and just power out. For whatever reason, there's a conscious decision to take the fall over things like downclimbing etc.

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