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Rope Life - what do you know? 2-Oct-2009 At 4:15:34 PM dimpet

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Rope failure is probably going to cause more damage to you if your 100 meters up :P,
If one of gear fails you fall to the next one, not the entire way down.

>On 2/10/2009 Wendy wrote:
>I do occasionally wonder why people tend to be much more concerned about
>the age and condition of their rope over any other bit of gear. Hands
>up who's climbing on a 10 year old harness? Mine never last that long
>as there's only so many years of thrutching a harness can do before it
>has scary abrasions, but there seems to be plenty of old harnesses out
>there. What about everyone's slings? And those on their quickdraws or
>cams? They seem to be archaic even more often. Surely all these things
>are subject to similar forces to a rope and manufactured of similar materials?