Hi

This post is not relative to Tasmania, but the climbing community is so small that I think it would be appropriate to post it here as well. Some of you might have met Clint maybe briefly at Frog Buttress, or even in Tassie, others knew him pretty well. He was a really nice bloke, and really helpfull from the short amount of time I spent with him. Unfortunately, he passed on 2 weeks ago while equipping a new route he was absolutely psyched about. He wanted to dedicate this route to his mother, and sold one van to equip the route.

While on a rescue mission with SES people 10 days ago (28/06/2011) , we found his body laid on the ground. It is believed that while drilling, he tried the moves, keeping falling and jummaring up ... his 9mm static got cut on a sharp edge. He then fell for 40 or more meters, landed on a ledge, removed his harness (dunno how much time later) stood up, got daisy, and fell for another 20 30m.

This is a pretty sad news, another one ... in the climbing community. Could this have been avoided, I don't know. A bigger rope would not have resisted I guess, 2 ropes would have been better (but not practical while on a solo mission), pads to protect sharp edges ? May this accident change our behaviours toward security, which we might neglect too much sometimes.

He died following his dreams, hope someone will finish his route.

Rest in peace Clint

Loz
post on Qurank

http://queenslandclimbing.yuku.com/topic/5695/Clint-Fatal-Mt-Greville-accident-was-Clint-is-missing\-

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