General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
Climbing on borrowed time	17-May-2009 At 10:42:02 PM	Dave C
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A particularly famous example would be the massive rockfall on the Petit Dru (Mont Blanc) in 2001. As I recall the West Face and South-West (Bonatti) Pillar routes were all totalled by it! http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos/Misc/Petit_Dru_after_the_rockfall_2001__51286.html This sort of geological mishap affects British sea-cliffs al the time. A couple of well-known ones were the Johnny Dawes & Paul Pritchard horror show Come to Mother (E7 6a) which fell into the sea a couple of years after they did it back in the 80s. Another high-profile one was Nick White's Earth Rim Roamer in North Devon which climbed a spectacular arete that subsequently fell down so Nick went back and climbed it again - Earth Rim Roamer II.

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