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solo death at Camels hump 2-Feb-2012 At 3:45:48 PM sliamese

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On 1/02/2012 skegly wrote:
>My wife just read about the death of a climber who was soloing.
>Not only did climbing in general get a serve, l was wondering how does
>this affect access and how people precieve our sport.

unfairly, with a high degree of ignorance.

for the 12 months ending July 2011
“...1,291 people were killed on our roads over the past year and around 32,000 people were hospitalised as a result of crashes,”

so who's going to stop driving? or rant about how dangerous it is? right now you may be thinking 'oh but thats different'. how? it all comes down to how familiar we are with a given scenario. they don't get climbing, so its deadly. people 'get' driving, and do it everyday so we can't bad mouth that....