General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
calculator for impact forces from a climbing fall	4-Nov-2004 At 11:25:49 AM	Andrew_M
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>the numbers are very scary. If you take a 1 meter factor 2 fall, you put nearly 20 KN >force on the anchor (enough to break a bolt) and the climber faces 15.3 G-forces. Yep, that's why cavers and canyoners tend to use dynamic rope for "cow's tails"/safety lines. Using a static sling greatly increases the shock loading on both the body and the anchor, even from a short fall such as you describe. Harder to have a specialised dynamic cow's tail on multipitch climbs though. Just more crap to carry.

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