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SICG St Peters - Ground fall 13-Apr-2012 At 11:54:40 AM Dr Nick

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Forget the US, Australian gyms have had many incidents with Grigris. I've been dropped when someone threaded one backwards, but from low enough I wasn't hurt (2nd or 3rd bolt at Penriff back in the mid 90s from memory). I know of several other incidents, and it's not that hard to make the cam fail to engage by catching it on something.

I still think they're fine if used sensibly, but the same is true of basically any belay device. Hands up how many successfully caught lead falls using a "sport-8" when they were popular? (For those who don't know, this was a dodgy system involving using an 8 but just clipping the small eye and the rope through the crab, rather than threading the rope around the small eye - nice and easy to pay out rope for sport climbing, nice and easy for the rope to keep going...)