In reply to Mr Burns:
Yeah, that was really bizarre,
no one really saw him go up, it seems, a climber going up is not exactly out of the ordinary- and the fact there wasnt a belayer wasnt particularly noticable either- he was on the self-belay wall.
I think i saw the guy earlier on in the night talking to an instructor, as if it was his first time at the wall (but not the first time climbing),
it seems that he just climbed up the wall and got to the top without attaching onto anything.
bizarre.
Also, the instructors were going round doing the saftey nazi thing- which is not a bad thing at all- even before the incident, but missed a guy soloing up the wall.
odd.