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Biggest/Nastiest whipper with no sad ending |
23-Sep-2010 At 1:11:02 PM |
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On 22/09/2010 bluey wrote:
>I've regurgitated my Lamplighter tale to many a fellow climber - my mate
>took a whipper while I was belaying - in short, she got off route on the
>second pitch about a couple of metres before the top of the pitch (crazy
>offwidth that other lost leaders had confusingly chalked up), peeled off,
>a couple of pieces popped and she ended up level with me at the belay ledge
>at the end of the first pitch. Scared the bejeezers out of both of us.
This might be related to Bluey's story and happened about 2 years ago at Araps, involved 2 girls and 2 pieces of gear popping. Otherwise, here is another Lamplighter story.
I was about to lead the last pitch of Judgement Day which traverses slightly below Lamplighter when I heard a loud crack. My belayer and I looked up to see a helmeted girl falling head first straight past us. I thought they were on the third pitch according to the guidebook and the fall seemed to go on forever. 20m would be a conservative guess because by the time she stopped falling she was well below where we were sitting.
Fortunately the cliff below Lamplighter drops away so there was nothing but air to hit. If there were rocks this one would have been a fatality.
To the girl's credit, they got straight back on the climb to recover their gear. |
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