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Accident at Mt Buffalo 15-Jul-2015 At 1:57:59 PM patto

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On 15/07/2015 simone wrote:
>Fair enough not talking to media, but for the community involved in these
>kind of activities the synopsis of what happened should be available to
>learn from, like they publish in the Accidents In North America Alpine
>Journal if there is an Australian equivalent?
I completely agree. I have been and am still am an advocate of making the information available to the wider climbing community (aka chockstone). Hopefully this will happen at some point. Though understand that proper incident reports take time to prepare and that chockstone is not the primary recipients of those reports.

On 15/07/2015 capt_planit wrote:
>I hate to defend the uni club but I find that lumping these two incidents
>as "abseiling accidents" and then using them as evidence of an unsafe learning
>enviroment to be somewhat disingenuous.
Thank you, for bringing some sense and logic into things. These two accidents are completely unrelated. The fact that two within the space of a few months is simply statistical chance. Though it naturally doesn't look good. Even in the absence of media reporting, serious reviewing of procedures is prudent. (The halting of roped sports happened before the media coverage.)

>I'm not sure I've seen enough evidence to suggest that the club is any more
>unsafe than others.
Quite true. In general I would say that the way clubs and their members approach these activities is with significantly more caution and safety procedures than your typical recreational climber. But of course that is also to be expected as organisations have significantly wider responsibilities than your average climbers. Club-members are fallible just like the rest of humanity, so on occasion unfortunate events do occur.