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Accident on Loboff 5/3/2011 8-Mar-2011 At 10:09:05 AM Pat B

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My family and I were first to arrive after he fell, I watched him do the traverse thinking exactly Wendy's thoughts, then when he got the heal hook at the end I looked away thinking he'd sent the route, only to hear the thump and groans of Larry seconds later. We advised him that he needed to be checked for concussion and when he said he would be alright and would not need to go to a hospital, told his partner how to check him for concussion.

Just goes to show, when you're in shock you are not capable of making good judgements and partners should take over/insist. To his credit, his partner did say he would take him to hospital straight away, but obviously was not assertive enough.

Larry was a very lucky boy, as his last bit of gear was at the start of the traversing difficulties and as far as I remember it is possible to get more gear in which he overlooked. He could have hit his head much harder. Oddly ha said he had done the route before and, I think, intimated that he also fell off it then?! Not sure though.