Stay safe out there

[Steve Bullman]

Well I have now been climbing for 19 years, and today for the very first time I had a Karabiner open on me. I was ascending hand over hand, got myself in a slightly kack handed position when I heard a click...I looked down and there was my karabiner wide open!!

 

I've purposely not named the karabiner as I don't think its relevant, the point is it can happen given the right circumstances...don't get out of the habit of regularly checking your karabiners throughout each and every climb

[Stubby]

Any idea how it opened Steve ?

[Adam Bourne]

Close call there mate. Glad you see it when you did.

 

Don't always check like clock work but if I make a change over I double check and check again. But I do keep and eye on things when there's been slack in the system or like you got into a knarly situation.

[Steve Bullman]

Any idea how it opened Steve ?

I think I had my arm crossed over my ropes so as I pulled down on the one end, the hand i was using caught the karabiner....obviously pushed it down and rolled it round silmutaneously...just one of those things

[Dan Curtis]

Twice I've had a gate roll open. Once it caught on my bridge and turned, the other was against a small branch and turned.

 

Glad you noticed it and got it sorted.

[johnanderton]

I had a karabiner open on me before Christmas , I had finished getting the brash out of a large white poplar & was going back for a rigging pulley luckily I was stroped on the large stem I was spiking back up , i was leaning back & close to the stem and a bulge on the tree opened the karabiner , I leaned to one side and it closed , I repeated the movement to watch how it opened , lesson learned never take anything for granted !!

[Cov Climber]

Wow, could have been a lot worse. Glad your ok!

I'm a sad git but I check my kit before every climb!

[detritus21]

Near miss here as well. I now have a 10m and 27m rope thanks to not concentrating and being complacent.

[Ian G 2]

Lucky one. Don't know how relevant but when doing swah I was always told to have the karabiner so the it had to screw up the way to unlock to help prevent in wanted openings

 

All best stay safe

[Joe Newton]

Near miss here as well. I now have a 10m and 27m rope thanks to not concentrating and being complacent.

 

 

I've done this more than once, the bugger is it's always at the top, when I have slack in my system, and I end up having to cut my spliced eye off.

 

The bright side is I get a new side strop.

 

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