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Accident: 01/02/15, Mt Buffalo - The Cathedral.
kieranl
6-Feb-2015
10:19:00 PM
According to a post on TheCrag from Paul Thomson she fell from the flake start to Maharajah, pulled gear, hit ground and broke ribs.
PThomson
7-Feb-2015
8:04:03 AM
Yeah, that is what the rangers we came across at the Gorge carpark told me 2 days ago. Sounds like she fell, the gear she'd placed behind the thin flake broke the flake (the broken section of flake is obvious at the start of the climb) and thus pulled out, and she landed flat on her back. Only about a 3m fall but onto her back and in an awkward landing zone (rocky).

- Paul

billk
7-Feb-2015
2:26:34 PM
Is it Maharajah that has an alternative hand/ fist crack start?

Might be worth encouraging that start.

ajfclark
7-Feb-2015
3:29:01 PM
Yes it is Maharajah that has several starts... There's the original, the corner and the flake at least. I've caught at least one fall on that flake but it is quite goey off the ground and somewhat blind to place gear if you're not in a great position on it.
kieranl
7-Feb-2015
3:33:36 PM
And you can also wack a cam up into the wide crack to help protect the initial moves onto the flake. This sort of situation is where double ropes really help - can have runners in both cracks close to the ground without having to put long draws on.

billk
7-Feb-2015
5:16:04 PM
On 7/02/2015 kieranl wrote:
>And you can also wack a cam up into the wide crack to help protect the
>initial moves onto the flake. This sort of situation is where double ropes
>really help - can have runners in both cracks close to the ground without
>having to put long draws on.

Coz it is such a trade route for aspiring multi- pitchers, guides should probably recommend that at the start. I think the guide explains the tricky unprotected move near the top.

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