Last Pitch Alum Pot

[Over the Hill]

A group in front of me last week rigging the last pitch in Alum managed to dislodge a largesih block close to the P Hangers.

Decided to give it a miss after that so not sure how safe or not the area of rock is now supporting those hangers.

Thought it was worth a mention. 

Oh and some little shit in one of the many groups there under instruction that day lobbed a few rocks down the shaft while we where there just missing us. 

 

[Alex]

Oh and some little shit in one of the many groups there under instruction that day lobbed a few rocks down the shaft while we where there just missing us. 

Bloody heck, someone died some decades back because someone chucked some rocks down.

 

[Alex]

So if you look at my vid which shows that last pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr8pU9gGTds at 3:06 in where about's would it be on there?

 

[grahams]

Oh and some little shit in one of the many groups there under instruction that day lobbed a few rocks down the shaft while we where there just missing us. 

Bloody heck, someone died some decades back because someone chucked some rocks down.

Mabel Binks killed in 1936 by a stone probably thrown by a member of a cycling group.

 

[langcliffe]

A group in front of me last week rigging the last pitch in Alum managed to dislodge a largesih block close to the P Hangers.

Would this be the hang on the true left or the true right of the pitch?

 

[Simon Beck]

In relation to the 1936 incident; nearly happened to me once. I'd just bought a 90metre length of rope and did the big pitch in Alum. I was in the process of taking up slack to start ascending when a stone landed right near me, another one followed quickly behind but by this time I'd sort shelter under the overhang.