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Climber injured in bluies after 30m fall 2/Jan/13 21-Jan-2013 At 4:20:13 PM pecheur

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On 21/01/2013 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 21/01/2013 pecheur wrote:
>>the one referenced by M9.
>
>I don't know whether to start a thread dissing it (to properly warn others),
>or kill my link to it.
>The best thing would be for that misinformation to disappear altogether
>from the interweb...
>... and have since put a warning in my previous post.
>
>Post edit:
>I have since been back to the parent site to send them feedback, but this
>option doesn't seem possible...
>It is criminal that they can get away with misinformation that is potentially
>life threatening in applied usage, by using a simple disclaimer.
>
M9 firstly no one your age is allowed to use the phrase dissing ;)

Secondly I agree that misinformation shouldn't be on the web. Whether it's life threatening is a different question. Given it grossly overestimates loads I'd be too scared at all to climb with those sorts of forces 1 metre out from my last piece of gear :P