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Climbing as a group of three ... how best to do it 24-Jul-2006 At 12:07:14 PM Ronny

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On 21/07/2006 M9iswhereitsat wrote:
>I don't own a reverso or equivalent.
>Can anyone who does tell me if they are capable of belaying a 2nd as well
>as a leader at the same time?
>... or does the auto-block mode preclude this 'double duty configuration'?

In theory you could thread the ropes to do this, but the problem would be that the biner that you clip to your belay loop to belay the leader is the same biner that is used to cause the auto-lock function for the second. So it wouldn't work because if the leader weighted the rope, the biner would no longer be free to move in the right direction to cause the second's rope to lock.

This would be similar to 'making yourself safe' into the auto lock biner while belaying a second. If you were to fall off the ledge the biner would be pulled away from the device and would no longer lock the second = very dangerous.

J