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worst near accidents I've seen 23-Sep-2010 At 12:17:46 AM gordoste

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On 21/09/2010 citationx wrote:
>neil wrote:
>>I once had someone belay me off such a small slung boulder that I could
>>kick it over when I got to the top. I was not impressed!
>
>My first ever trip to Arapiles, Easter 2004. We'd spent 12 hours of the
>day driving from Sydney to arrive at 10pm. I was so excited that it didn't
>take much for my partner to convince me we should do a climb then - Diapason.
>I led the (what I considered slippery) first pitch and he the second. Upon
>topping out on the ledge at the top of the second pitch I looked at his
>anchor - two "bomber" cams under a rock. I asked him if it was solid and
>he replied that he couldn't budge the rock when he placed them. I picked
>it up and moved it further from the edge of the ledge. He, in the interim
>made a better anchor...

lol i never heard that story! was it mr. holmes?