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Tracker opened with line twists / off heading and hung up on the wall.

Jumper was low experience, weak track and under delayed (4-5sec instead of 8-9sec to get better opening / most overhung section of wall)

Jumper was luckily un-injured.

Video?

Some additional information based on seeing video of the incident yesterday:

No weak track or under-delay from what I could see. But severely bad response/wrong priority to linetwists.

It showed an 8,5 second track, good clearance from the wall/lower talus.
On deployment, there is a good 3 to 4 rotations/linetwist combined with a 180 degree off-heading.

The jumper then incorrectly focused on clearing the linetwist, vs correcting heading away from the wall. 9 to 10 seconds are then spent trying to correct the linetwist until impact with the wall, where the jumper luckily gets hung op on a ledge big enough to stand on.