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25-26/12/2019 Candlestick accident 5-Sep-2020 At 7:42:48 AM patto
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The story I heard from somebody who was on the cliff that day/morning pretty much aligns with the above summary.


For further explanation of the 6mm rap line, it was the EDELRID RAP LINE 6MM.
https://www.edelrid.de/en/sports/accessory-cords/rap-line-protect-pro-dry-6mm.html

So a line specifically made and advertised for use as a rappel line. Though it was clearly not the best choice given its involvement in two of the events that day.

The Megajul I believe failed to provide much appreciable friction as its depth is just too shallow. Try it if you have one lying around, it performs exceedingly poorly with ultra thin ropes. (6mm likely would exceed the work rope range of most belay devices carried by climbers, but most will still work just with less friction. A Megajul gives drastically reduced friction.


To their credit they did do a decent job of self rescuing until they were told to not continue jugging lines by the rescue crew that were called out.

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