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Near Miss - Abseiling on knot-tail of ropes.
timbigot
4-Feb-2016
8:13:41 PM
"I'm sure I remember reading a study which involved deliberately abseiling off the end of the rope above mats, or possibly with a separate belay. I don't think anyone managed to stop themselves with any practical security device."

http://enormocast.com/137/ Interesting episode from a few years ago @ about 45:35 Duane Raleigh talks about accident prevention and abseil back ups.
kieranl
4-Feb-2016
9:59:48 PM
On 4/02/2016 timbigot wrote:
>
>http://enormocast.com/137/ Interesting episode from a few years ago @
>about 45:35 Duane Raleigh talks about accident prevention and abseil back
>ups.


Duane Raleigh has written quite a lot about this over the past almost 30 years. He mentions testing going past the rope-ends here :
http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/Climb-Safe-surviving-climbings-diciest-business-rappelling?page=2
but there's no detail about what he tested. It would be interesting to do some testing with a variety of abseil and backup riggings and different rope combinations.
Flashyrox
6-Feb-2016
4:26:43 PM
Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad you are ok , definitely will keep this in mind now and put this into my checking routine!

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