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Blue Mountains - male climber injured after fall 12-Nov-2013 At 4:26:14 PM johnk

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This thread is up to nearly 20,000 views! Has to be getting up there as an all time record for Chockstone thread to close to it.

Apart from the fact that someone was really really hurt which is a real bummer, it's a great thread and a great discussion with good learnings for all of us. i.e. it's not cool to fall when climbing and even worse its not cool and totally unacceptable to not belay correctly/catch someone if they fall no matter what belay device is being used!

I personally like gri-gris for single pitch climbing trad and sport too, my only criticism is that some people don't feed the rope out quick enough if the rope is on the upper end of the thickness (11mm).