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Accident on Loboff 5/3/2011 9-Mar-2011 At 3:27:08 PM cruze

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On 9/03/2011 gordoste wrote:
>If you have never made mistakes and errors of judgement
>yourself then you are not experienced.
With no disrespect intended to "Larry" who I have never met and I was not there at the time of the accident, there are mistakes and errors of judgement like getting benighted, having to bail in a thunderstorm, leaving your belay device at home, losing skin on a slab, etc that most climbers will make at some stage which makes them more experienced...

...But then there are MISTAKES and ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT like gunning it across a badly protected overhanging hand-traverse and coming off resulting in broken bones that the vast majority of climbers will happily never make in their whole climbing lives. Making such MISTAKES and ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT is not a rite of passage to the status of "experienced".

I have just finished reading Ed Viesturs "No Shortcuts to the Top" which I thought shone a well-framed light on developing an inner-dialogue about levels of acceptable risk.