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- From: randrew@teton.UVic.CA (Rex Andrew)
- Subject: rappel accidents
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.213422.14936@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:34:22 GMT
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- I'm looking for a bit of (probably meaningless) trivia. Somewhere sometime
- I read something to the effect that a lot of famous climbers have died in
- rappel accidents (implying, I guess, that, having ascended a hard route, they
- became inattentive on the descent, or that more generally, being veterens
- of hard bold ascents, they became careless in something as straightforward (!)
- as setting rappels anchors, etc.)
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- Now clearly I don't want arguments on what a "famous climber" is! At the
- time this was written, I suspect the author was referring to climbers a
- few decades ago who honed their skills on local mountains and then went
- off to do big things in the Alps, Himalayas, etc.
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- I don't remember where I came across this assertion, and, notwithstanding
- the annual list of misfortunes in Accidents in N.A.Mountaineering, I can
- only think of Tom Patey as a possible example. Can anybody suggest others?
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- Rex
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