General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
Exploding Rope	6-Sep-2005 At 4:36:26 PM	deadpoint
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On 6/09/2005 M8iswhereitsat wrote: >>Isn't a 'factor 2 fall' a fall past your belayer - ie only possible on >>a multiptich with hanging belay and no >>gear in >nmonteith is on the money. >Its hard to imagine this happening on Integral Crack ... >... Not saying a horrie fall did not happen, just the FF2 part, ... unless >it was done as two pitches. The rope jammed behind the flake. ie Pete was 6m above the flake, ended up 6m below flake, 12m total fall - fall factor two. There was no force whatsoever on the belayers end of the rope.

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