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Climbing on TV - assistance with the script! 21-Feb-2008 At 1:19:32 PM CraigS

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Those who got an extra laugh out of the climbing scenes in Cliffhanger and Vertical Limit might have enjoyed the opening scene for last night’s episode of House. A 10yo girl was being belayed by her mother in an indoor climbing gym and had come off the wall quite high up. Things started looking worrying when her mother began having medical problems and her hands became paralysed, leaving her daughter without a belayer.
The little girl’s luck turned bad when it became obvious that the gym neither used a Grigri (a la Cliffhanger) or a ratcheted wrap-around pulley (a la Hardrock). So far, it’s all plausible.
However her luck turned even worse when, half way through her plunge to the ground the close up of the belay device showed the end of the rope disappearing through it! Which of course raises a few practical questions, as well as the question of whether the input of the climbing gym was not sought by the TV producers, or simply ignored in favour of more dramatic footage.