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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Swiss S
- References: <1992Nov11.162956.5721@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Nov13.194831.4208@aimla.com> <1992Nov18.134223.9292@aber.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 08:31:32 GMT
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- This does sounds like a Swiss S rappel system.
- This is not a recommendation, but it is an old technique.
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- In article <1992Nov18.134223.9292@aber.ac.uk>
- azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward) writes:
- >OK enlighten me, I'm baffled. Why bother with obscure karabiner wraps
- >(or body belays etc) when you can just chuck a Munter onto any old krab?
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- Because the Munter is seen by some as another "obscure" wrap.
- There's probably a half dozen experienced climbers who don't know what a
- Munter is....
- These are more, old techniques to fall back on when your partner
- succeeding in dropping the rack. Or maybe you dropped the rack.
- Like shoulder belays, over the shoulder rappels, doable, not recommended,
- how else would you know not to do them rather than a waist body belay.
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- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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