General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
Exploding Rope	5-Sep-2005 At 12:52:51 PM	shmalec
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looks like the sheath has somehow taken the tension load when the core should have been. From the photo the sheath looks like it has retracted from the break point suggesting it was under tension when it failed. Could it be possible that the sheath in this area has been pulled particularly tight from rapping or something and then when you fell it's broken in tension on the outside of the bend at the biner? You'd expect to see some bunching up of the sheath around the rope ends if this was the case...unless the core has seen mega stretch. Can't think of any other reason.....shouldn't be taking load at all.

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