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Guardian readers, where are you?

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 Flinticus 08 Sep 2021

Sleeping? Out foraging? Working your sourdough?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/sep/08/every-climbers-worst-nightmare-sliding-drop-writer-fell-mountain-cuilllin-skye-black-ridge-wild-peaks

Thought this would have been posted here already. I think Simon Ingram worked at Trail magazine.

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 The Watch of Barrisdale 08 Sep 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

"Valleys"! In the Gaidhealtachd! Never!

 kaiser 08 Sep 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

TLDR

Chap tripped over his own shoelace while fiddling with his phone and hurt his shoulder, Medevac.

Back to the sourdough...

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 felt 08 Sep 2021
In reply to kaiser:

Trail fail

I'll resume knitting that yoghurt.

 Longsufferingropeholder 08 Sep 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Click here to save thinking of an appropriate response https://www.tomforth.co.uk/guardiancomments/

 Flinticus 08 Sep 2021
In reply to Longsufferingropeholder:

Brilliant. Thanks. Is there an equivalent for climbing centre chit chat? Probably lots of cross-over...

 magma 08 Sep 2021
In reply to felt:

> Trail fail

reminds me of Esther Dingley, only that slip was fatal...

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In reply to The Watch of Barrisdale:

But you will be happy with a dale or two?

 magma 08 Sep 2021
In reply to kaiser:

>shoelaces

if you make up facts, how can you learn anything? have you ever had an accident?

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 cragtyke 08 Sep 2021
In reply to Flinticus:

Thanks for that, it wasn't in the paper version. Good read, just shows how minor occurrences can escalate into potentially serious situations.

 The Watch of Barrisdale 08 Sep 2021
In reply to Dr.S at work:

Norse is perfectly acceptable.

 magma 18 Sep 2021

In reply: any thoughts on the climbing maxim: “Don’t try to do two things at once”

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