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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!strath-cs!st-and!mlb
- From: mlb@st-andrews.ac.uk (Mark Begbie)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: Re: Getting over the edge safely
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.193859.6314@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:38:59 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.110548.1@us.oracle.com>
- Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.
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- Starting an abseil with the anchors below the top of a crag scares
- the proverbials out of mee too, and I have been climbing for seven
- years, so still a beginner as well.
-
- The only way I have found is to jump off the top of the crag, with the
- descender clipped in and ready to go! No but seriously, I just clip in
- to the descender, take in all the slack, and down climb the last few moves
- until I am slightly below the abseil anchor. Form then on it is just
- averagely scary.
-
- By the way is anyone else haunted by the same thing as me. Namely when
- you say you are a climber someone always says, "Oh you're a climber, can
- you take me abseiling?". Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
-
- Mark Begbie.
-