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25-26/12/2019 Candlestick accident 4-Sep-2020 At 7:10:41 AM Olbert
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On 3-Sep-2020 kieranl wrote:
>Yes, the 6mm abseil cord is a red flag. Colin Haley might rap on 6mm cord
>but he's in a different class to any of us, and, this is really important,
>he practises. According to the instructions for the Edelrid rap line it's
>meant to be used doubled or with another rope for abseiling, and for any
>other human load except for glacier travel. If they were rapping on it
>as a single it was out of scope and it's a wonder they got away with only
>a case of rope-burn. Likewise using it as a single for a tyrolean is also
>way out of scope. If people are going to use technical gear like this they
>have to understand its limitations and train with it before going into
>the wild. Given there were 7 climbers in the party there was no pressing
>need to save weight on the walk-in.
>
>The team size and mix is another red flag. Five people, including novices
>on the Candlestick? That's a benightment waiting to happen. And there appears
>to have been some unease apart this as they re-jigged the team membership
>to change the experience mix. I guess they made the mistake of not being
>hard-nosed enough to tell some of their friends that they couldn't come.

Who raps with a 6mm tag line in Australia anyway? I can't remember ever seeing this in the wild and always seemed much more like a big-wall technique from the States. Why not just do what the rest of us do and bring single full rope?

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