One of the first climbing accidents I read about was where a climber survived a fall from a tree...don't remember the height but significant. No real injuries from that fall. But he landed on a sloping hillside and tumbled down the hill. His (unstrapped/unsecured) helmet came off in the...
That's the key right there....be pro-active in keeping the distractions minimized. Too often folks around me are asking questions or bantering while I am setting things up to do them in the right order and safely. They aren't about to make a climb up a rope/tree with sharp things and the...
Dang, Jerry...interesting what you can remember about those moments. Amazing how such a fall can be survived...a slight twist this way or that on the way down and the results could have been catastrophic. Surely hard to understand some things.
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