Avoiding Accidents

[Mark Bolam]

It’s not fair dos is it?

Why rig it?

[Mick Dempsey]

4 minutes ago, JSN said:

Highly unnecessary though I’m calling it  - groundsman’s fault / lack of communication. 
Fair do’s to take it big, but the lad on the ground was too eager moving in  - he’d of been safe(ish) if he stopped still.  

He didn’t have any choice! The rope pulled him in

[Steve Bullman]

26 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Why rig it?

Unnecessarily oversized piece. Only purpose I can see is to get an impressive video. Backfired at the groundies expense. Climbers fault all day.

[JSN]

Ah! My mistake - I didn’t notice the rigging! 

[carlos]

i guess more wraps on the bollard probably would of had a better outcome, but  a bit that size slamming into the stem wouldnt of been great either.

 

[nath]

The fact that the climber posted that video tells me he is oblivious to it being all his fault and he by extension what a dick it makes him look. To not see all that I can only presume he’s somewhere on the spectrum 

[Joe Newton]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

He didn’t have any choice! The rope pulled him in

Could've let go, or positioned himself better, but mostly agree. Terrible decision making on the climbers behalf.

[Steve Bullman]

2 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Could've let go, or positioned himself better, but mostly agree. Terrible decision making on the climbers behalf.

It’s a bizarre phenomenon Joe, but you just don’t let go. It happened to me a lot of years back when I was on the ground

[Joe Newton]

5 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

It’s a bizarre phenomenon Joe, but you just don’t let go. It happened to me a lot of years back when I was on the ground

Yeah man I've been there.

 

Better positioning would've kept him out of harms way though. 

[Mick Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Yeah man I've been there.

 

Better positioning would've kept him out of harms way though. 

And who’s responsibility was that in your opinion?