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This 360 degree core shot resulted from my partner's fall from the end of the crux section. The core shot was about 6.5 meters from the lead end of the rope. Judging by how the rope was running and the distance from core shot to rope end, we think the culprit was a sharp, vertical "mini-arete" located toward the top of the first part of the climb (about 3 feet below where you start traversing left). The rope was a pretty new 9.2 Topaz from Edelrid. I think the core shot would've happened to any rope, and we were happy only the sheath was damaged.<br> <br> I've done Kloof a number of times, whipped, belayed whips, and never gotten a core shot. Maybe a fluke, but I thought I'd post just so folks are aware. I don't know how/if it's possible to prevent the rope from running over that edge.
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Kloof at night part II.
Hanging from an amazing little chockstone above the first overhang. The holds above and to my left are huge and incut. The first crux is getting from here to the diagonal buckets at the top left of the photo. <br> <br> Photo by Chuck Graves.
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Lisa Montgomery
Oct 28, 2015
“This 360 degree core shot resulted from my partner's fall from the end of the crux section. The core shot was about 6.5 meters from the lead end of the rope. Judging by how the rope was running and the distance from core shot to rope end, we think the culprit was a sharp, vertical "mini-arete" located toward the top of the first part of the climb (about 3 feet below where you start traversing left). The rope was a pretty new 9.2 Topaz from Edelrid. I think the core shot would've happened to any rope, and we were happy only the sheath was damaged.

I've done Kloof a number of times, whipped, belayed whips, and never gotten a core shot. Maybe a fluke, but I thought I'd post just so folks are aware. I don't know how/if it's possible to prevent the rope from running over that edge.”  

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Kloof at night part II.
This 360 degree core shot resulted from my partner's fall from the end of the crux section. The core shot was about 6.5 meters from the lead end of the rope. Judging by how the rope was running and the distance from core shot to rope end, we think the culprit was a sharp, vertical "mini-arete" located toward the top of the first part of the climb (about 3 feet below where you start traversing left). The rope was a pretty new 9.2 Topaz from Edelrid. I think the core shot would've happened to any rope, and we were happy only the sheath was damaged.<br> <br> I've done Kloof a number of times, whipped, belayed whips, and never gotten a core shot. Maybe a fluke, but I thought I'd post just so folks are aware. I don't know how/if it's possible to prevent the rope from running over that edge.
Hanging from an amazing little chockstone above the first overhang. The holds above and to my left are huge and incut. The first crux is getting from here to the diagonal buckets at the top left of the photo. <br> <br> Photo by Chuck Graves.
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