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General Climbing Discussion

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Exploding Rope 7-Sep-2005 At 3:22:20 PM pensionerpower
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On 7/09/2005 Mike TS wrote:

>If I'm following you, if you had a 3 metre line then you'd fall 7 metres
>with a fall factor of 2.33 which I guess is survivable?
>Also, wouldn't you reach up to clip, which means your fall is 5 metres?

Yes, that would be the FF if you had a 3m line. The only reason I said you climberd past the attachment, reaching down to reclip, was to improve the example. It gives you another meter or two to fall, thereby upping the FF :-)

Aikibujin, what was the scenario you had in mind?

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