Deadly climbing Fall

Brett (climber) fell 50 feet and Veach (belayer) grabed above the ATC and got rope burn all over his fingers and palms down to his muscle.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• rock
• climbing
• fall
• belay

[halleck3]

If that'd been me, I would've gotten up and kicked the living sh*t out of that belayer.

[allmodcons6]

shit belaying

[EpicPinapple]

Why am I looking for people falling off mountains ?

[Maratona1969]

it was done on purpose,you cunts!

[wb5plj]

I'm just stunned at the performance of the belayer. just to let everyone know the role of the belayer is critically important and has your life in there hands. that could have been so much worse. if you are belaying for someone don't think that it is a secondary role. it is a duo that goes climbing and as a consequence it is relatively safe activity. as we see here the climber may have thought he was top roping but as it turned out all of the sudden he was (just about) free climbing.

[willwrite4food]

Where is this? looks like So Ill.



[czarny181]

the belayer should b stoned alive or should be belayed byhimself :S

man.. climbing is not a joke, its fun, but b serious, gravity and physics have no mercy for mistakes.. they can kill you...

[abowl0frice]

guys he literally got that on video

[thricefelt]

The lesson learned here is that belaying takes 100% attention at all times. Its not as easy as many people make it out to be. I always see people shooting the shit while belaying or half assing around. I treat climbing the way I treat firearms, with 100% respect and discipline at all times. The only thing keeping that climber alive is your break hand and it better be a bomb proof grip on the rope. Once that rope starts moving 32 ft per second per second, its going to be very hard to stop.

[schnellfingerjoe]

I would never lay my life to the hands of a stupid jerk like that...

The climber really was lucky not to have fallen to death

[dungenfox]

Very lucky



[m1arnett]

I would smash my belayer in the mouth if this happened to me! If the guy doesn't know what exactly to do and do it safely I would not put my life in his hands! How about a five minute training session or throw a GriGri on that putz, stupid, stupid, stupid!