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Moonarie 2019-08-11 12-Aug-2019 At 10:56:09 AM One Day Hero

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Very sad news, condolences to the friends and families of the climbers.

On 12-Aug-2019 Chris.b-c wrote:
>Two of my partner's closest climbing buddies. We're both living in the
>Blue Mountains now and can't comprehend how this could have happened to
>these two people with the amount of experience they have. While never welcome,
>you expect this in the mountains - but not on rock.

Chris, I've never cared that much about the details of these accidents. There's only a couple of ways this could have happened, and it doesn't really matter which one it was.

There is simply a low level risk of catastrophe permeating all climbing, and we unconsciously round it down to zero (because we aren't wired to deal with small numbers very well).