Witnessed a crazy thing today I've never seen or heard of before. At Hillwood , a visiting British climber was leading Long Kiss Goodnight (22). Going over the roof near the top, he all of a sudden couldn't move upwards. The reason being was that the pull on loop on the front of his climbing slipper, miraculously clipped onto the biner on the bolt as he moved past it. He was then faced with the prospect of an upside down fall and hanging by his foot from the bolt. He somehow managed to down climb, take his shoe off and finish the route with a bare foot, and still onsighted the climb. Great effort.

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  1. Doug Bruce

    Quite a while ago I got a loop of shoelace caught in a quickdraw. I can't remember specifically where it was; Di has a vague recollection of somewhere in Canada, I think it might have been at Skaha. All that surfaces when I try to remember more is a strong feeling of it being my right foot, but not much else ...

  2. dave james

    haha, this phenomenon has often been touted as a sport climbers worse nightmare seems its more common than i thought!