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Accident at Mt Buffalo 12-Jul-2015 At 12:48:16 PM patto

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On 12/07/2015 kieranl wrote:
>A bit of stuff on this in the Sunday Age today. Apparently the wall of
>silence is beaking down. Good thing too.
>This idea that you can say nothing and hope it goes away was always going
>to fail.
I don't believe a wall of silence was ever the intention. Though I can completely understand that it has perceived this way. As I indicated earlier in PM I personally believe that clear information and good discussion about incidents is a healthy part of the climbing community. I am sincere about this.

I personally am not directly involved but I do know people who are. Like most organisations (governmental, corporate and others) internal reviews of incidents take place. Reports are produced and committees discuss things. This all takes time.

That said, in your position I would probably be posting in the same manner. As a forum regular here and on overseas forums I have learnt significantly from reading about and discussing accidents that have occurred in climbing. The Buffalo incident was combination of events and deserves to be discussed.