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Near miss 26-Mar-2014 At 4:52:12 PM martym

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This reminds me of the time i nearly killed my wife with a fridge...
Climbing in the Czech Republic a few years back on grubby riverbed type stuff near Karlovy Vary. Some firemen were doing abseil training and scrambled up a nearby gully and apparently traversed around somehow... not sure how they managed it - what ever the case they dislodged some stuff.
I climbed up and around an arete and was standing on a refrigerator sized rock that slid out from underneath me. Luckily I clung to the wall and was able to scream "Rock, big f*ckin' rock move move" which my girlfriend didn't seem to compute.
Luckily our friends did and grabbed her and move her out of the way as the thing crashed less than a meter from them and rolled into the water. So we never got to see how big it actually was. Though the piece it left in the ground was about the size of that in the picture above.