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majid_sabet

Jan 26, 2011, 1:52 PM
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H T, 29, an IT specialist at Standard Bank in Johannesburg, sustained serious burns and his backpack and clothes also had burn marks.

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sbaclimber

Jan 27, 2011, 10:50 AM
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Crazy. Among all of the other risks that climbers have to deal with that golfers don't, lightning is trying to kill us too... Mad

potreroed

Feb 8, 2011, 8:27 AM
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sbaclimber wrote:

Crazy. Among all of the other risks that climbers have to deal with that golfers don't, lightning is trying to kill us too... Mad

This doesn't make sense. Lightning is a serious threat to golfers as well as climbers.

edge

Feb 8, 2011, 8:31 AM
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potreroed wrote:

sbaclimber wrote:

Crazy. Among all of the other risks that climbers have to deal with that golfers don't, lightning is trying to kill us too... Mad

This doesn't make sense. Lightning is a serious threat to golfers as well as climbers.

I read sbaclimber as saying that lightning is a common risk, and we climbers have so many more additional ones.

Though he has obviously never seen me golf...

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sbaclimber

Feb 8, 2011, 10:05 AM
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potreroed wrote:

sbaclimber wrote:

Crazy. Among all of the other risks that climbers have to deal with that golfers don't, lightning is trying to kill us too... Mad

This doesn't make sense. Lightning is a serious threat to golfers as well as climbers.

....yes.
Edge understood what I was trying to say.

airscape

Feb 8, 2011, 10:38 AM
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That is the second climber that has died of a freak accident at that crag in the last few months

In august a large rock rolled onto another climber crushing him.