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The singularly most dangerous thing ... 16-May-2013 At 5:48:53 PM DylanB

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Mine's a bit tame in comparison to others. Decided to experience my first multi with two other mates who had never attempted a multi before by climbing Troposphere on Tibro. We made a poor decision to abseil back down the climb instead of using the normal abseil route at the top of the wall. The last two pitches of this climb trend rightwards significantly.

I was last to go down and found that the guys had clipped the ropes to the first belay stance and continued on down to the station below. This particular belay was on a huge ledge with a tree off to the right. I unclipped the rope from the anchor so I could continue abseiling to the next belay stance. At that point I somehow lost my balance while standing on the worlds largest ledge and started to pendulum off to the right.

I hit the tree and instantly started spinning off the ledge and out over the 80 or so meters of exposure. At that point I was quietly shitting myself and holding on for my life. It was pretty hard to tell what was going on due to the fact I was spinning around whilst careening across the cliff face. As luck would have it, there were no nasty corners to smash into so I ended up unscathed. I know it's unlikely, but all I could think about was how thankful I was that a rope didn't cut during the pendulum (it's not the cleanest face up the top).

I learned a lot of important lessons that day!