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Trip Report: A violent fall on Three Fingered Jack
Saturday, June 30, 2001, by Julie Zeidman

I had a fully loaded summit pack on my back. Ben, Kara and Brent were just up 15 feet above me. I had a platform of rock/gravel I had to climb up onto to get to them. The platform was about 3' to 4' high. I stepped onto a rocky foothold with my right foot about halfway up the platform. Both hands were on top of the platform. I then brought my left foot up to the level of my right food and then completely weighted myself and that's when the foot hold gave way.

I flipped over completely backwards, landed and slid on my chest and then somehow rolled over onto my back, came to a lucky stop and sat up.

I felt a great deal of pain on my left outer thigh and there's now a bruise about 8"x5" on it. Luckily, my head never made contact with the ground. As I was tumbling violently for 25 plus feet the vision of those firemen tumbling off that mountain in Europe you showed in your Class, flashed in my mind. Kara, Brent and Ben stared in stunned, helpless disbelief.

I am okay now!
--Climb On! Julie Zeidman

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A violent fall in Spain on caught on video    mpeg file  - WARNING - This may be disturbing! The climbers did recover.

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