Have you ever seen anyone climb with just ONE rope???

[jnoon]

I was subcontracting, on tuesday to a new bloke, his main climber was using just one main 45m line with a prussik,

he is a extremly good climber with years and years of climbing experience and previous to his 20+ years of tree work clibed rock & ice,

He is off to Morrocco next week for a two week stint of rock climbing, so you get my point a very experienced climber,

 

 

but...

 

obviously if you only have one rope evrytime you change anchor point you are effectivly dissconnected from the tree meaning if you slipped or whatever its possibly game over:confused1:

i asked him why he climbs this way and sometimes he does use a second small strop or flipline but moat of the time just one line.

 

im just curious if anyone else climbs like this or has seen anyone climb like this?

thanks

josh

[Hodge]

Most "good" climbers I know only use 1 rope? I didn't know there was any other way.

 

 

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[Bearded Munch]

Did that for years I would use both ends of the rope( a prussic loop on both ends ) and had a strop on my harness too, thirty years on still here.

[Stubby]

I was subcontracting, on tuesday to a new bloke, his main climber was using just one main 45m line with a prussik,

he is a extremly good climber with years and years of climbing experience and previous to his 20+ years of tree work clibed rock & ice,

He is off to Morrocco next week for a two week stint of rock climbing, so you get my point a very experienced climber,

 

 

but...

 

obviously if you only have one rope evrytime you change anchor point you are effectivly dissconnected from the tree meaning if you slipped or whatever its possibly game over:confused1:

i asked him why he climbs this way and sometimes he does use a second small strop or flipline but moat of the time just one line.

 

im just curious if anyone else climbs like this or has seen anyone climb like this?

thanks

josh

 

Steve my buddie who I work with only does that . Always has . Got his metal strop, secures with that , makes a monky fist and re sets his climb line etc etc and so on ..... He is strong and bloody fast .... and old !

[Paul Barton]

I have never seen anyone climb with 2?

 

Do you mean that he doesn't use any kind of strop or lanyard as well as the rope? Does he use both ends of the same rope?

[markieg31]

the best climber i have ever known didnt even know what a side strop was untill a couple of years ago.

[High Scale]

I used to climb with no lanyard.

[Rich Rule]

I was subcontracting, on tuesday to a new bloke, his main climber was using just one main 45m line with a prussik,

he is a extremly good climber with years and years of climbing experience and previous to his 20+ years of tree work clibed rock & ice,

He is off to Morrocco next week for a two week stint of rock climbing, so you get my point a very experienced climber,

 

 

but...

 

obviously if you only have one rope evrytime you change anchor point you are effectivly dissconnected from the tree meaning if you slipped or whatever its possibly game over:confused1:

i asked him why he climbs this way and sometimes he does use a second small strop or flipline but moat of the time just one line.

im just curious if anyone else climbs like this or has seen anyone climb like this?

thanks

josh

 

Seems everyone keeps missing the bit in bold.

 

I have seen one guy climb large trees like that. I didn't see a lot of him as he was sent off site the next day.

 

I used to work at the council and one of the old boys would just free climb most things, unless he was over about 40 odd foot then the rope came out for safety.

[Goaty]

Whats a rope?

[Le Sanglier]

In answer to the OP, everyone I have ever worked with.