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Chockstone Forum - Accidents & Injuries

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Ground fall at St Peters monday night 28-Aug-2014 At 1:39:35 AM Doug
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On 27/08/2014 mikllaw wrote:
>Unfortunately I agree with everyone here. You generally get better with
>experience (smaller risk per climb), but the odds of a mistake slowly increase
>(risk x frequency).
>Yes I know that if you climb sport and catch 100 falls a day that you'll
>be more experienced than the average trad belayer. But then again, you
>probably would mess up a trad catch.
>Belaying is hard and there is no certainty.

+1 on that. There's a bit of a curve there I think. In the middle years the risk of such an accident are minimised; as you push on in years they probably start to gradually go up again for various reasons ... ;-)

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