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Rescued in Blue Mountains May 31, the analysis 26-Jun-2015 At 4:28:42 PM rightarmbad

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On 26/06/2015 Superstu wrote:
>Is zipping down a line with your hands off the brake and just relying on
>friction from an ATC actually the end of the world? I'd assume that yes
>it would probably hurt at the bottom, and potentially too much heat could
>do bad things to nylon, but are you necessarily going to die horribly at
>the end?
>
>Mikl how do we test?

Try it yourself.
Let go up the top somewhere but not so high up that rope weight stops you, and have a friend stop you short of death at the bottom and see if you think you would have made it or not.
Please film it, with sound.

Watching those parkour dudes, it's pretty obvious that lightweight fit people can come down from some pretty serious heights without damage if they know what they are doing and are in control.
Falling backwards onto rocks may not fit that description though.