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Rescued in Blue Mountains May 31, the analysis 25-Jun-2015 At 9:50:52 AM simey
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On 25/06/2015 dhunchak wrote:
>I started routinely using an autoblock back up for abseiling after reading
>a coroners report which found a major contributing factor in the death
>being the "failure to employ any of a wide variety of abseiling backup
>systems in common usage" or something similar.

While I am aware of numerous abseiling incidents/accidents where anchors have failed, people have slid off the end of their ropes, or got themselves jammed on abseil ropes, does anyone know of any incidents where the person has lost control of their abseil rope and come to grief?

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