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Prussic while abseiling - above or below device? |
1-Aug-2012 At 10:32:52 AM |
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On 1/08/2012 citationx wrote:
>On 1/08/2012 kieranl wrote:
>>On 1/08/2012 citationx wrote:
>>Do you never make a mistake?
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>I can honestly say that I have never unclipped an anchor, or weighted
>something or done something that would have/could have resulted in injury
>or worse (edit: perhaps I should say "i never have had a fear that
>indicated that unclipping or weighting etc"). I may have forgotten to do
>something I needed to, but always while "still safe". I've never done random
>things that other people have mentioned like "wow, lucky i had that piece
>in cause i randomly slipped and fell only a short distance". Like, what?
>how do you randomly slip and fall?
>I certainly don't use a prussik (if i use it) to protect myself against
>forgetting to thread my belay device properly and plunging to my death.
I look at it this way. I get in a car and put a seat belt on that in the event of an accident it might save my life.
I abseil i use a prusic loop. Things do go wrong and the time it does for you i think most people here wouldn't want to be there to watch it happen.
In saying that a lot of people climbing do things that they think is an acceptable risk.
For myself personally i dont want to take that risk so i dont |
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