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Fall at Cliffhanger climbing gym 28-Mar-2007 At 5:52:04 PM PensionerPower
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On 28/03/2007 PensionerPower wrote:

> If you peel off from the higher position, you have a greater chance
>of hitting the deck.

Oops. I guess the same amount of rope is out, whichever postion you clip from.


> 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!

But I do stand by that. So IMHO you can't neccessarily say that it is always safer to climb higher & clip at waist level, rather than stopping lower & pulling out rop to clip up.

Yes? No?

PP

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