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Re: [j_ung] Broken spliced webbing,climbing accident, lawsuit:
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j_ung
Jun 29, 2011, 11:48 PM
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Registered: Nov 21, 2003
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Last Sunday, I had two clients, a father and son, who wanted to learn how to build toprope anchors. They're in the process of transitioning from guided climbing to being self sufficient, so we spent several minutes in the beginning of the day talking about self sufficiency and what that means. I ended up giving them a little pop quiz of sorts, which involved me describing several accidents and, in each case, asking who was responsible for the injured climber's situation.
Every single correct answer was, "the climber." Some were obvious, such as a climber decides to free solo and falls. Others were less obvious, like a belayer drops his climber. One was a piece of equipment fails due to a manufacturer defect.
I'll spell it out, just in case anybody here finds it unclear. If you choose to climb, then you choose to accept a wide variety of risks, including your own ignorance, spliced webbing, exploding cams, and bizarre one-in-a-billion occurrences that have never happened before and nobody can predict.
I hate that this woman is hurt and suffering, but a lawsuit can never fix the root of her problem, and I hope she loses.
(This post was edited by j_ung on Jun 29, 2011, 11:50 PM)
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Post edited by j_ung
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