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Re: [healyje] Top-belay accident:
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j_ung
Feb 8, 2011, 3:31 PM
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healyje wrote: They most likely just brought the two rope strands together in front of them and gravity did the rest. From the sound of it both D and A were in over their heads and experience level for this incident to have occurred as it did.
Agree. Of course, it's a guess, but I'm inclined to chalk this up almost entirely to the belayer being caught off guard by the weighted re-orientation of every part of the system away from what he's used to. The climber's poor choice to climb on is certainly also to blame.
(This post was edited by j_ung on Feb 8, 2011, 3:32 PM)
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Post edited by j_ung
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