2 kinds of People

ZombieCake

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Looks there are two kinds of people in the world, at least on Mendip. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2w9X_tHU7k
Anyway Ennio Morricone vs John Williams... hard question to say who's best. I'd call it a draw.... As ever comments please.
 

royfellows

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There are two kinds of people

The quick and the dead

How fast can you react and move, this goes for everything. Caving, martial, whatever
In a mine in the north Pennines a belay failed and I fell 12 feet with a sump below and very close.
I kicked off the wall and cleared it.

Rolled down a slope and got up with a few bruises.

I was quick and still alive.
 

royfellows

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Yes, Caplecleugh explorations years ago.

A chap I will call Billy G was there, his comment was, "One minute you were climbing, the next flying through the air, never seen anything like it"

or similar
 

Goydenman

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wow..quick thinking and moving
Reminds me when digging floor of passage in Harrogate Hole a team member shouted and I instinctively moved right as the left wall peeled away. I was stood in the alcove with this wall leant over against the right wall. I climbed out without even a bruise....phew
 

royfellows

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Off topic but I nearly bought my ticket home twice in Capecleugh.

In the 1990s I was climbing all the ladderways I could find trying to get up to the high level. Succeeded in the end, with some help.

Anyway, I climbed an air pipe to reach a ladder with the bottom section missing. Yes, I tugged at it, thumped it, did everything I could think of to test it, but when I actually got onto it the music started.

I fell backwards into water which broke my fall, if there had been a rock there it would not have been the fall that would have been broken. Hit my head on the opposite wall and totaled a fiberglass Joe Brown helmet, remember them?
Ladder came straight down, missed my chest by inches.
Got up and walked away.

Funny old thing, but years later in there with someone I will call Ian H we found the ladder, and Ian found bits of blue off my helmet still on the wall.

After a while you stop thinking "This is it" and start "Oh no not again"
 
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