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General Climbing Discussion

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Helmet lifespan 30-May-2006 At 12:41:30 PM gremlin
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I witnessed a guy fall over while walking on the weekend. He had his lightweight helmet clipped to his harness and landed on it, squashed it flat into 3 pieces. There was a ghastly pic posted a few months back from an abseil mishap where another lightweight helmet did a similar thing while someone's head was in it. No chance in hell i'd trust one of these types of helmets to protect my noggin'.

Here is a simple test for your helmet. Actually i think it should replace the lame UIAA test. Put your helmet on the floor and stomp on it! If it shatters to a million pieces it's probably not going to stop a 5kg rock (and definatly not the second!) from contacting your skull...

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