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Climber injured in bluies after 30m fall 2/Jan/13 18-Jan-2013 At 7:14:43 AM Jakob

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Hah, thanks for that!

A bit more math for the masses, a bd cam is rated to 8kn (less for smaller ones.) 8kn is 800kg, therefore you could actually expect a single cam to fail under a ff2 fall generating 850kg of force - something which is not an obvious thing. Common sense would say a 10m fall with 20m rope out would be worse than a 4m fall with 2m rope out hunting for your first piece, although in reality you have the system absorbing 2.5x body weight in the first compared to 10x body weight in second.

Again though, I knew this before the accident, but it was never really cemented until I saw the results. Be careful out there guys n gals. Learn from others! if u don't like math, use craploads of pro on anchors and before runouts.