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TAS climbing fatality?? 24-Jan-2006 At 6:56:31 AM Alan

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deadpoint,
The article in the paper didn't really say allot about what happened most of it seemed to be the opinions of "Hone" the guy who heard their calls for help at about 4:30 PM and called the police/SES. My partner and I didn't get to the pipes until about 7 PM for a quick after work climb and first saw that they were in trouble at about 8 when we reached the top of Northern Butress, so not too sure about what happened before then. I know his wife (also his climbing partner) and his son were not impressed with the article. I think some of the things Hone said were a bit insensitive and were really just opinion rather than what happened and the hero pose photo complete with rope over the shoulder looking proud as punch was really unessessary...
But then you can't expect much from the press. (also the previous accident they mentioned in 2001 to my knowledge was not a climber but a bushwalker who fell scrambling, serious climbing accidents on the pipes are quite rare)

Alan