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Rescued in Blue Mountains May 31, the analysis 26-Jun-2015 At 5:04:54 PM kieranl

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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?

Never fear Stu, the testing has been done, sort of.
Pete Livesey (legendary UK climber of late 70s) got knocked out by rockfall while rap-inspecting on some English limestone crag. He woke up at the base of the crag. Caveats - I think he was using a figure-8, being britain the ground was probably soggy moss several metres deep and he wouldn't have had a helmet on (Brits thought they were unsporting back then). Maybe the story was in "Games Climbers Play"

edit : Sounds like the sort of impromptu testing that Mikl would do