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Re: [roninthorne] accident ... possibly belayer error:
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majid_sabet
Jul 11, 2012, 7:20 PM
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roninthorne wrote: majid_sabet wrote: ...using gloves should be an standard habit when belying any size rope . Bullshit. After 30+ years on rock, climbing across the U.S. with hundreds of people, I've never seen anyone (who knew what they were doing) come close to dropping someone, losing a belay, or losing control of their rappel because they weren't wearing gloves. The rope starts warming your hand, you slow the rate of feed by lowering your brake and and increasing friction on the DEVICE. This was a bad belay. Period. in my 30 years climbing, mountaineering and rescue work all over the world, I seen plenty of people (both n00bs and pros) that somehow lost control of their belay ( sudden leader fall shock, rockfall on their head....etc) cause their brunt hand could not control the rope so all it take one unexpectedly fuc8up to end up servery hurt or dead. gloves are an addition to safe climbing just like locking biner, helmet and so fort flame is on
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