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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:19 pm
by Zspider
Spragwa wrote:... I just don't believe it happens unless the belayer screws up. Not that people don't make mistakes.
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Yup. Unless the climber came untied or the rope broke, the belayer was definitely snoozing.
ZSpider
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:22 pm
by Zspider
J-Rock wrote:I have never dropped anybody, but I have been dropped 3 times. Once I hit the ground from about 25 feet up and the belayer responded that he didn't think that I was going to fall.
Haha! That's a classic! So it was your fault then, wasn't it?
ZSpider
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:31 pm
by Zspider
pigsteak wrote:I wish I had the judgement of Charlie.....while the post did seem a bit over the top, I thought no one would even joke about the kid dying. tasteless, even by pigsteak's standards.
Huh? So death isn't funny? No dead baby jokes? No Holocaust jokes?
ZSpider
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:52 pm
by pigsteak
zspider...not from me...
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:21 am
by weber
Four of the Florida climbers who were up here as a group a few weeks ago responded to my emails to them inquiring about the accident. None had heard of any Floridian climber decking in the Red. So, it looks like this will remain a mystery.
Mcrib, do you know what caused the accident? I heard it was another case of belaying error.
Even though this accident did not happen in Muir, we are still are very interested in any RRG accident involving hardware or rock failure. Fortunately, these have been almost non-existant. But, there can be important lessons to be learned.
The "Training/nutrition/injuries" forum might be a good place to report RRG accidents. Rockclimbing.com has an accidents section where info is reported:
http://www.rockclimbing.com/forum/injur ... _accidents
Rick
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:25 am
by Spragwa
Thanks for the update Rick. Hopefully the guy made a full recovery.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:28 pm
by mcrib
Sorry it took me so long to get back. I am sure the kid will be fine. He is quite lucky. He landed on a patch of dirt but there were small boulders all around. From what the Lee county firefighters said he had just broken an ankle and possibly sprained the other. He was dropped either because the belayer held down the grigri or loaded it wrong. He took it off the rope before I could see how it was loaded.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:30 pm
by Paul3eb
glad to hear he's relatively alright..