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LOST - Lamplighter - Araps 15-Apr-2013 At 8:42:58 PM simey

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On 15/04/2013 Wendy wrote:
>I had a friend get lost on Lamplighter back in the dark ages when he was
>just learning to climb and somehow made his way across the judgement day
>traverse in a pair of volleys.

I had a friend who managed to get lost on Lamplighter too. But this friend wasn't exactly learning to climb - he was supposedly an experienced climber who was taking his girlfriend climbing.

Probably his first mistake was to not bother with climbing shoes due to Lamplighter being the lowly grade of 14, so he started up in thongs. His next mistake involved not checking the route description properly and following the chalk onto Judgement Day (grade 19). His next mistake was to then to deviate out of Judgement Day and follow the chalk up The Second Coming (22). By this stage he was swearing at how difficult the climbing was for grade 14 and had to kick his thongs off and thrash his way to the belay barefoot.

Should you ever want to climb with someone who shows this much sound judgement, his name is Mike Weeks.