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25-26/12/2019 Candlestick accident 5-Sep-2020 At 7:31:17 PM patto

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davedave, thank you for posting about the incident.

I think people should tone down some of the rhetoric here. It is hardly encouraging for people to post incident report if people start getting stuck into the participants or groups they represent. Most of us here have had an epic of some nature. Sometimes from the unexpected, sometimes when we've known that we were pushing the limits.

Yep some mistakes were made. (In particular the group size/experience and the 6mm rope) But from my understanding is that the group did have some people of notable experience. They did manage to mostly self rescue by swimming, tyroleaning and then aiding out. From my understanding they would have gotten back to camp early that morning themselves had the PLB not been triggered.

(The group had mobile reception. I was hearing about this epic as it was occurring. Yes they bit off more than they could chew, but they seemed like they handled the situation appropriately. This has also been posted and discussed here before, but not in this amount of detail.)