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Advice for a visiting climber 20-Sep-2013 At 5:32:23 PM egosan

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On 20/09/2013 prb wrote:

>But unless you happen to be hypersensitive to jack jumpers, they're not
>a problem!

Unless your feet are a little numb from taking off a very tight pair of shoes while standing unroped (Yea... I know.) on a narrow ledge coiling the rope that you should be tied in with.... Curiously you look down wondering what that stinging sensation is. Oops you are standing on a Jack Ant nest.

It hurt a lot. My partner looked very concerned at my jumping around. On the bright side, The bites hurt a lot less when wearing those shoes and oddly the shoes hurt less too.

Oh and they jump about 200mm vertically. They are big enough you can see the buggers bite into you with their mandibles and then curl their abdomen under to squirt formic acid into the wound they just created. Nature is very cool.