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Chockstone Forum - Accidents & Injuries

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The 14-Jan-2009 At 8:22:22 PM Epic Steve
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Such a loss that such a young, energetic, enthusiastic and so well loved climber, should succumb to an unfortunate combination of events that led to his death...as they say, it never is one thing that causes a given accident, but a combination of many less obvious events, in a particular sequence in time...making a seemingly minor error in route finding, climbing above the ironstone layers of rock and finally the one thing most climbers would ever expect to happen...a bolt failure under body weight loads...!

How often does anyone get a chance to pre test bolts whilst climbing a route...other than the usual monster double bolts at most belays...pretty much never...especially if you are pushing your grades!!! We all expect bolt failure to be something removed from the equation, unless we are in the mountain regions...

R.I.P and climb well with the big fella on belay for you upstairs...............

Safe climbing to all

Steve

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