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Old 04-18-2013, 12:15 PM  
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Originally Posted by WarChild View Post
Crazy. I took a fall lead climbing from about 15 feet up last year. So that's 15 feet to the nearest piece of gear, then 15 feet further then rope stretch. All in all a little over 35 feet and I thought that was nutty. Now granted there was a lot of shit around to hit and I got pretty lucky.
Yup, I took a 10m fall about 15 yrs ago - like you said, it's a 20m fall and it frikken hurt like hell. The rope went in the bin after that.

I don't lead anymore, but still love climbing
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