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solo death at Camels hump 2-Feb-2012 At 6:56:11 PM skegly

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Firstly my condolences to the family and friends.
Please don't compare driving to climbing as a ratio as what is the actual statistic of climbing deaths if you don't include absailing or soloing? (do include self belay roped solo)
Every site on private property i climb reacts to this news.
On 2/02/2012 sliamese wrote:
>On 1/02/2012 skegly wrote:
>>My wife just read about the death of a climber who was soloing.
>>Not only did climbing in general get a serve, l was wondering how does
E>>this affect access and how people precieve our sport.
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>unfairly, with a high degree of ignorance.
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>for the 12 months ending July 2011
>“...1,291 people were killed on our roads over the past year and around
>32,000 people were hospitalised as a result of crashes,”
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>so who's going to stop driving? or rant about how dangerous it is? right
>now you may be thinking 'oh but thats different'. how? it all comes down
>to how familiar we are with a given scenario. they don't get climbing,
>so its deadly. people 'get' driving, and do it everyday so we can't bad
>mouth that....
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