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Near Groundfall at Stanage North, U.K.

ajfclark

30-Apr-2017
5:57:34 PM

Goshen

1-May-2017
10:19:09 AM

ah, the old leg behind the rope trick. Good belaying though.

JimmyS

1-May-2017
6:40:59 PM

I climbed this recently. There is so much gear in the break where he falls from! It's such a safe climb, shouldn't perhaps be "going for it" way out from the gear if you're above your limit and can't place obvious gear?

patto

1-May-2017
7:06:51 PM

On 1/05/2017 Goshen wrote:
>ah, the old leg behind the rope trick.

Yep. That got me once. I won't say never again, but I'm more scared of it now than I used to be!

On 1/05/2017 Goshen wrote:
>Good belaying though.
Absolutely.

ChuckNorris

1-May-2017
11:55:53 PM

for a route like that apart from the leg around the rope (and even with it) everything seemed pretty cool. soft catch didn't whack much with brains in it....storm in a tea cup

ajfclark

2-May-2017
9:25:41 AM

On 1/05/2017 JimmyS wrote:
>I climbed this recently. There is so much gear in the break where he falls from! It's such a safe climb, shouldn't perhaps be "going for it" way out from the gear if you're above your limit and can't place obvious gear?

I think he saw that gear but made a decision not to place it. There's a blurb on R&I that isn't with the video itself:
Jonathan Cheetham nearly craters on Kelly’s Overhang (HVS 5b)—around 5.10 for the Yanks—at Stanage North in the Peak District, U.K.

"I fell so far because whilst climbing the overhang, I made the decision to keep moving and place gear once I was on easier ground, rather than stopping and trying to place gear upside down!” Cheetham tells Rock and Ice. "Unfortunately, instead of finding easier ground, I found (what I assume is) the crux of the route and I was miles above my gear by then."

Despite the runout, Cheetham attempted the “awkward” move, as he describes it, and just when he was off balance and without good handholds, his foot slipped and he fell.

If not for the amazing belay—Cheetham’s belayer anticipated the fall, pulled in slack, and ran backwards to shorten the length of the fall—Cheetham would have hit the ground and this could be a very different story.

"I walked away from the fall with a small cut on the back of the head [he was wearing a helmet] and no lasting damage so all is well,” he says. A “very nicely seated” DMM size 5 Dragon cam caught the fall.

"I feel incredibly stupid for putting myself up there with no gear but it was a judgement call I've made many times on other routes. Having said that, it was definitely the wrong decision in this situation!” he says. "It's a bit scary how such a quick decision turned what could've just been me doing the dangle of shame under the overhang, into a full on whipper.”

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