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Accident in CanadaFri Night Vid

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This week's Friday Nighter is from Arc'teryx and they introduce the film on their vimeo page:

Far from the dream trip they had envisioned, Toni Lamprecht and climbing partner Benno Wagner travel from Germany to establish new routes in the remote Adamants Range of British Columbia. The resulting epic has a sobering lesson for all climbers.

Post Script: Benno Wagner was on the BMC International Meet in Wales this spring, and seemed to have made a full recovery. Well, he didn't have any trouble with classic hard routes like Conan the Librarian. Benno - all at UKC hope you healed well and wish you the best of luck on your future climbing trips!


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15 Jul, 2011
Great video to watch before heading to the mountains climbing. I'm curious about what caused the fall though.
15 Jul, 2011
Haha I love that his main concern in hospital was that they didn't cut all his expensive gear off. What a champion!
15 Jul, 2011
With the reference to 'a knot' it sounds like he abbed off the end of the rope. Chris
16 Jul, 2011
I thought that. But it sounds like he was just cleaning holds and suddenly starting falling. Think I'll tattoo "KNOT" to the back of my hand
17 Jul, 2011
I'd have thought in this context, he means cleaning gear - ie taking gear out, whilst jumarring, perhaps? So maybe he hadn't tied in to the rope or arrived at the belay and simply removed the jumars from the rope without attaching himself to it? Frankly I can't be bothered to watch it again to listen again - it took SO long to upload.
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