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QUT and affiliates sued for $8m Kangaroo Point 29-May-2017 At 11:38:19 PM rightarmbad

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ADH, obviously you left school before the reading comprehension thing was mentioned.
I never said anywhere that the belayer should take the climber off belay and if you read my posts you will see that I never do or suggest anybody does.

We are talking about an incident that has quite obviously had cleaning the anchors involved and not just being lowered.

I have also suggested that even in these situations where a mix up happens that there should still be no way a climber falls to the ground.
He has a say in his own fate.

You say nobody goes in hard, but then contradict yourself by saying that you go in hard on a single draw to thread the anchors.
You go on and on about some mythical calling of safe at the anchors.
Was not me who said anything about that, only you smart arrsse argumentative southerners.

Now back to the actual incident which we have scant information about.

Imagine this.
Climber arrives at anchor with the intention of cleaning the route.
Other club member comes over and asks senior member belaying if they could come and check their anchor anchor setup before anybody uses it.

Senior member asks climber if if he can clean and rap himself so he can go and look after the several other gumbies waiting to climb on an unchecked anchor.

Climber replies that yes he is competent to clean and rap and that he has gone in hard and is now safe.
Belayer confirms and takes him off belay to proceed with his task.

Climber threads anchor and clips back in and forgets that he is now rap cleaning and because he doesn't do the simple thing of checking his belayer has them on a weighted rope before releasing his safety, he falls to the ground.

Serious hurt, no income, family doesn't understand climbing and looks to take legal action against anybody they can to ease the financial burden.

All because of not making a habit of taking 2 seconds to check the system by weighting the rope with safety attached.