Devon Trip - 4/5 August

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Who wants a prize?

Check out my post from last night: Belaying Safely. The Petzl page has a belaying no-no on it. There’s a free prize, to be awarded this weekend, to the first person to spot the error.

Belaying Safely

I was at the Castle Climbing Centre on Monday night on our club meet and some of us witnessed a nasty ground fall from the 5th clip. The room fell absolutely silent as the victim was attended to. It was clearly a poor practice incident but I’m not going to speculate here on how it happened. Hopefully the chap is okay: the rubber matting does not prevent injury but it does make a difference. The incident reminded me of the duty of care that we have to ourselves and each other. It also trigge…