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Rescued in Blue Mountains May 31, the analysis 25-Jun-2015 At 12:26:45 PM patto

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On 25/06/2015 dhunchak wrote:
>I started routinely using an autoblock back up for abseiling after reading
>a coroners report which found a major contributing factor in the death
>being the "failure to employ any of a wide variety of abseiling backup
>systems in common usage" or something similar.

In my extensive reading of climbing accidents I can't every recall hearing of a death as a result from the lack of a backup. I'm sure it's has occurred but it must be far more rare than the many other common ways people screw up abseiling.

Most commonly abseiling accidents occur from incorrect rigging of the rope or the device or from coming off the end of the rope. Or simply falling off while at the anchors.