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Fall at Cliffhanger climbing gym 28-Mar-2007 At 5:47:38 PM PensionerPower
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On 28/03/2007 gfdonc wrote:

>- leaders, climb to the clips rather than reefing in lots of rope. In
> my example above, the next time I climbed one move higher and
> clipped at my waist - much lower risk.

Why so? If you peel off from the higher position, you have a greater chance of hitting the deck. And you can't assume that the higher postion is necessarily easier to hang from, than the lower one. Perhaps the low position is juggy & the higher one is the crux!

PP

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