rrrADAM
Oct 14, 2011, 6:22 PM
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rosco22 wrote: First off, this was not a guided climb. It was three good friends out climbing. The belayer was in fact one of our guides, which is where the assumption came from, but he was simply out climbing with two friends he has known for a long time. It was his day off, and they had come up for the weekend. Secondly, the accident was an unfinished knot. The climber tied her own knot, and unfortunately she did not finish it. She has been climbing for around 5 years. When she reached the anchors and sat in her harness, the knot came untied and she fell. She was not wearing a helmet, and is beyond lucky that she sustained no head trauma.
I always check my belayer's harness and atc/biner/rope before I blast off, and they always check my harness and knot. This is the way I learned... And thank gOD, as we all mess up, and I have forgotten to finish my knot before.
Everyone I climb with does this instinctively, and I've climbed with people from all over the country in many different places.
The only people I've climbed with that didn't do this instinctively were ones that I was teaching to climb, and after a few climbs, they did it instinctively after understanding the possible concequences of not doing it.
I am dismayed that your guide is not in the habit of doing this.
(This post was edited by rrrADAM on Oct 14, 2011, 6:24 PM)
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