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- From: allen%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Allen Sanderson)
- Subject: Re: Chest Harness
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:14:21 MST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.121421.28451@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Organization: University of Utah Computer Science
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- bclegg@actrix.gen.nz (Bob Clegg) writes:
- >Took a fall the other day, when the rope took up my bottom half
- >stopped but my top half kept going sideways, result: A crushed,
- >compressed? rib. Wouldn't have happened if I had been wearing a
- >chest harness.
- >When I get back into action I am thinking of wearing one as i can't
- >think of any other way i could have prevented it.
-
- The UIAA recommends that you always wear a chest harness in conjunction
- with a seat harness. Most people do not. I usually wear a chest
- harness when doing walls or for glacier travel with a pack on. I have
- never figured out a comfortable way to wear a chest harness and as
- such I don't particularly like wearing them when climbing. It isn't so
- bad when your following but when leading the rope drag around my
- shoulders is a bit of a strain.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Allen R. Sanderson
-
- Salt Lake City, Oootah
-
-
- "Great spirits have always encounter violent opposition from
- mediocre minds."
- - Albert Einstein
-