TOWING THE LINE
Watch Connor take down another classic testpiece on the Empath cliff in Kirkwood, California.
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We didn't perform every single permutation and combination of possibilities, just enough to get a general idea of what would happen in certain situations. We started off using a fall factor of 0.6, 80 kg of mass and a slightly dynamic belay. If the rope didn't cut clean through on the first drop, we would continue dropping the mass on the same location of the rope until it broke. Obviously, this isn't super realistic as I'm sure if you were to take a gnarly fall and sheath your rope, hopefully you have the sense to NOT go up and fall again on the EXACT same spot on your rope.
We then upped the ante a bit by increasing the fall factor to 1, increased the mass to 100 kg and used a static belay.
Watch Connor take down another classic testpiece on the Empath cliff in Kirkwood, California.
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