Climber Falls from Anchor at the Gunks

[enoch308]

Ye gods, it doth amaze.
The dreadful inattentive mistake.
As the belayer turns his back.
Whereas the climber
Scorns the base degrees by which he did ascend.
And when he attains the upmost round,
Oh, My Ass !
The tail of the cord flies quickly by.

[tbwilsonky]

christopher marlowe would roll over in his (2nd) grave were he to read this.

[enoch308]

Oh yeah, I know that guy ! He was sort of like Will. Only a little more radical dude.
Sort of pissed off a lot of people at the wrong time.

[Clevis Hitch]

I think you are responsible for your own ass. I mean truely. When you say in direct or indirect or direct or straight or whatever lexicon is in fashion at the time. COORVA MacTHCH tu puTAN IDiot. DIrect!!

It doesn't matter because even when you are at a rope length up on the 15th pitch. Before you trust it you prove it! Give a little yank...Stupid shit. Why are we even discussing this. Your ass is in your own hands. Try not to be stupid cause you ass is the on who will pay...damn. so easy. why didn;t I think of that

[woodchuck008]

I would like to be able to say that if the climber had repelled off the route, he would not have had this happen, since the accident here in the PMRP people said to lower to be safer. But alas, I cannot say that because careless people will make careless mistakes no matter their preferred method of descent.

But it sounds like the climber was setting up an intentional toprope, thus the expectation to be lowered. Still a mistake not to communicate with belayer with a simple 'ready to lower' or some kind of check out of the belay being ready. Nobody is 100% safe until all members are back on the ground and off belay.