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Glasshouse fatality 10-Jul-2003 At 9:30:54 AM hardcore

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On 9/07/2003 Phil Box wrote:

> As to Salmons Leap I was talking to one of the old school fossils yesty
>arvo and he told me that he has done the wole route both up and down with
>his hands in his pockets, this will give you some idea of the nature of
>the climbing on this route.
>
> I`d love to go up there and examine exactly where the boulder came
>from but seeing as the cliffis closed perhaps no one will ever get the
>opportunity to officially examine exactly what went wrong.
>
Having read the Qurank thread, my guess would be that the accident occured on 'The Track' (Grade 3) on the North Face of Crookneck - rather than Salmon's Leap. I think the TT at the start of the climb may stand for Tourist Track.