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Weekend Whipper: Belay Miscommunication Leads to Huge Fall

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Well, that looked exciting.

https://www.climbing.com/videos/poor-communication-causes-climbing-fall/
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Well, that looked exciting.

https://www.climbing.com/videos/poor-communication-causes-climbing-fall/
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@climbing marketing team on point linking "missed latching the cam of the grigri" to their article on the Neox LOL

Also it looks like the belayer purposely dropped their brake hand...
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