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One accidental sweat slip on a 60 foot climbing wall can paralyze you for life. Trust in your line, I guess.
by CyberDroiDz 9y ago
One accidental sweat slip on a 60 foot climbing wall can paralyze you for life.
Trust in your line, I guess.
- bartread 9y agoI have a friend who was a recreational climber. One day she's at the climbing wall with her boyfriend. She's climbing, he's on the ground holding her line. For those who don't climb, and I don't (although I've been on a climbing wall), the idea is that if you fall the other person is holding on to the rope and and managing the slack so that you don't fall any distance and can be gently lowered or grab back onto the wall. Her boyfriend wasn't paying attention; he was chatting to some friends of his and hadn't noticed how much slack there was in the line. She's quite high up the wall, loses grip, falls, and doesn't stop until she hits the ground because there's so much slack. She's paralysed from the waist down, in a wheelchair for life. The boyfriend is, well, not her boyfriend any more. She's made the best of the situation, has a good career, and has met someone else she's now engaged to, but she's still angry about it, and I can't say I blame her.