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Re: [healyje] Top-belay accident:
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jt512
Feb 8, 2011, 6:30 AM
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healyje wrote: A redirect through the anchor is completely optional. The issue in this incident was A was not competent to the task of lowering D as a belayer and should not have been.
Lowering a climber directly off your harness is not an option I'd choose, unless the climber was very light or the distance to lower very small. Although it's possible to do, it isn't very pleasant.
Jay
(This post was edited by jt512 on Feb 8, 2011, 6:39 AM)
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Post edited by jt512
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