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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Do they have to call it a "death knot"?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I've climbed for a long time and people here know that I am experienced in all facets of climbing.
Having said that.....the closest I have come to dying was a couple of years ago in Sedona. I inexplicably rapped off of a single piece of sun bleached webbing. It parted like butter....if I hadn't, at the last minute, clipped into a knotted piece of webbing in a friable crack, I wouldn't be telling this story.
Never let your guard down! Experience only helps if you use it.
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WBraun
climber
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Americans should not rappel, stay home and watch Fox news for the latest updates on how to not die .....
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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up and down are relative.
life and death,
completely misunderstood.
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Matt's
climber
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It appears that Clint has died >10 times while rappelling...
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Rap a pitch in middle of multi-rap descent.
Try to pull ropes in crazy wind, get stuck.
Set up 3:1 pulley, get stuck more.
Prussick up one rope on a face you can't climb with push-you-over wind,
unsure of what is holding the rope up there.
Reach top and see a few feet of rope still through the rap rings, and just a couple of twists around the strand you ascended. No knots.
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Gunkie
climber
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This may have been asked, but who among us has *never* had a close call when rappelling?
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25 years ago I almost stepped off a ledge 60 feet off the ground when guiding a student who was having problems disengaging the rappel device on the ground after rappelling. I *thought* I was tied in and was not.
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20 years ago while TR soloing. Got to the top (after a few laps) and put myself on rappel but the rappel device was only clipped into my gear loop on the harness.
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I could have been a lot younger, forever.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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This brings me back to jugging some of Ablegable's fine no quite coreshot ropes only to have to rap them later...
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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It appears that Clint has died >10 times while rappelling... Matt,
I keep trying, but it seems I am too busy almost dying from other climbing accidents, so the raps are not getting a good enough shot at me.
"Competing risks". :-)
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Alpinista55
Mountain climber
Portland, OR
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You go climbing Mescalito with Survival, get stuck in a big storm at the Molar, retreat by down climbing through falling ice until all seven ropes tied together reach the ground, rappel until you are 100 feet out from the wall and the rope gets really skinny as you bob up and down at a knot pass, and die of fright. (true story, all but the death. Did sh#t pants, though)
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