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Climbing & Ropes Course Advisory
In the past few weeks we have seen a number of severe injuries related to climbing walls and ropes activities. The first injury happened to a young male camper. Three other campers were belaying him on the high ropes course. He gave them the command to come down, and they appropriately responded. Within the last 10 feet of the camper's descent the belayers lost control; he fell to the ground and fractured his tailbone. The second injury happened when a young female camper was on the high ropes course. The knot in the rope came undone and dropped the camper onto the ground, where she fractured both arms. In this incident a first year staff member who only had three weeks of ropes experience...
Posted: Jul 02 2009, 11:39 AM by Admin | with no comments
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