Accident in Badami, India

An American climber, fell from near the anchors, last week.  She survived the fall, with broken legs and spinal cord injury.  

The details:

A small group of Outdoor Bound instructors were climbing at Badami. At an area called Temple area, outside the town of Badami. The exit anchors here equipped with what are called 'bucket-anchors', a Ram-horn type hardware, and then with another glue-in bolt, which requires to be threaded through. Typically, one threads through both, but sometimes, folks just use the 'bucket-anchor' to drop the rope in, and come down on a single point. not a common practice, but is known to happen.

Apparently, this group was doing the same thing the entire day, exiting on a single point of exit hardware. end of the day, one of the instructors, dropped the rope into the bucket anchor. here on it is speculation, on what exactly may have happened. She may have dropped the rope on only wing of the bucket anchor. Returning back to the facts, when she took off her PAS, and loaded the anchor, it rotated to one side, and the entire rope unthreaded from the hardware, and she fell to the ground.  Some 20-meter fall.

She was subsequently evacuated to the local town hospital (Bagalkot), and then after a few days to Bangalore.

This is the barebones report, keeping out all the other underlying dynamics playing out on account of the accident, including the governmental angency threats to shut down climbing in the area.