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Accident on Bunny Buckets on Sunday 12-Jun-2013 At 1:33:48 PM WazACT

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Some interesting comments .... and thanks Duplo and others for keeping things constructive as my own point of view is that knowing what went wrong is a good thing so people can learn from other peoples mistakes and hopefully not be repeated.
While I am still unaware of some exact details as to amount of slack etc as I was in the group leading the pitch above but yes there were some communication issues between leader and belayer due to the belaying position under the cave. I can say that the leader was the only one in our group of 4 who did not have exp leading trad but in saying that if I was honest and was in the other group I would prob not have had concerns at the time on him leading the pitch. Yes the climber was from a sport background but I would not place him in the numpty gym climber category either.
You are all quite welcome to disagree but my own position with what I saw on the day and from climbing with him previously is that barring some small comms issues, I mostly put it down to one of those unfortunate incidents that sometimes you can't predict or can't avoid.