Timeline for How dangerous is it to fall 3 meters when lead climbing?
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| Sep 4, 2020 at 15:03 | history | edited | Vorac | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Wills | @Ben Crowell Can you explain this please? It's a big difference if you climb outdoors or in the gym but I don't get why you should be climbing top-rope solely as a beginner. Maybe this is different where you live but I don't see a lot people (and I mean not only advanced climbers) top-roping at all (in the gym). | |
| May 15, 2014 at 8:53 | history | edited | Benedikt Bauer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2014 at 8:46 | history | edited | Vorac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 17:21 | answer | added | DudeOnRock | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 18, 2013 at 3:07 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackOutdoors/status/368932180409339904 | ||
| Aug 16, 2013 at 8:00 | vote | accept | Vorac | ||
| Aug 15, 2013 at 18:49 | comment | added | user2169 | @Vorac: There are anchors, but no carabiners. Meaning it's got bolts but you're bringing your own quickdraws? That would be sport. Reading between the lines here, the mistake pointed out by Steed plus your uncertainty about terminology and types of climbing suggests to me that you may getting in over your head. Usually people do a lot of climbing on top-rope, then learn to lead belay, then try lead climbing on routes that are many grades below what they climb on top-rope. (E.g., my current level on top-rope in the gym is 5.9-10, but I've never led outdoors over 5.3.) | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 18:10 | comment | added | DavidR | can I ask, are you asking this question in general, or are you personally trying to get into lead climbing yourself? The answer is (I don't mean to be rude), it could be VERY dangerous (bordering on stupid) for a total beginning climber to try and take a lead fall, or it could be fine. An actual beginning climber should be learning how to toprope first, probably. Do you mean to ask how a climber who had never lead before would get into leading? | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 14:34 | comment | added | Vorac | There are anchors, but no carabiners (I am not sure for the term.) | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 14:24 | answer | added | user2169 | timeline score: 19 | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 14:12 | comment | added | user2169 | Is this trad, or sport? | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 14:00 | comment | added | Steed | Note: when you fall while clipping in, you fall 3m to the previous anchor + 3m to the lower anchor because you have 3m of "free" rope + some distance due to rope elasticity. | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 9:12 | history | asked | Vorac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |